[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Summit wrote:

>Slim Virgin wrote:
>  
>
>>CW had accepted the nom; hadn't mentioned the open proxies; and people
>>had started commenting. It's not clear there was time for an e-mail
>>correspondence. It was up to CW to sort this out *before* accepting
>>the nom.
>>    
>>
>Is this in the RfA guidelines?  "If you've been using an open
>proxy to edit, in violation of WP:NOP, first figure out a
>plausible reason for having done so."  Will that be in there now?
>
>This all reminds me of the neverending shenanigans over political
>appointments in the U.S., whenever there's a different party
>in the executive and legislative branches.  Every time, the
>stonewalling party has to figure out a new way to torpedo the
>evil other party's appointment, since all the old tricks are
>known and circumvented by now.  
>
If you're going to go there the Scooter Libby situation could be more 
analogous.

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