[WikiEN-l] Jayjg: Abusing CheckUser for political ends?

[The Cunctator]

On 6/15/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since editing via TOR is a violation of policy I don't see how
> revealing that information can be a violation of privacy. The Privacy
> Policy doesn't give people a right to secretly break the rules.

The Privacy Policy doesn't give people a right to secretly break the rules.

But neither does one rulebreaker give another person the right to break rules.

If Jayjg was abusing his authority then he was abusing his authority.
(Frankly, I have no idea, though I tend toward being very circumspect
with spreading information around.)

We don't let the police or the military break their own rules of
conduct with suspects or convicts for very good reasons (see Abner
Louima, Abu Ghraib).

Two wrongs don't make a right.