[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[K P]

On 6/18/07, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/06/07, ElinorD <elinordf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just a couple of points. I don't think anyone has actually stated as a fact
> > that Charlotte knew that she was violating policy before running for
> > adminship; it has just been suggested as likely. However, James Farrar is
> > demanding evidence that she knew it.
> >
> > Charlotte was Support Number 56 at
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Armedblowfish,
> >
> > a page which at the time of her vote was devoted to discussion of the whole
> > issue of policy and open proxies. This was at 02:28 on 5 June 2007. She
> > accepted her own admin nomination at 18:52 on 14 June 2007. Is it likely
> > that she supported Armedblowfish without even looking at the previous
> > comments?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Why couldn't Jayjg have said that at the beginning and saved us all a
> load of hassle?
>

However, as CW had never been banned, and plenty of admins with check
user tools knew she had an open proxie, she might not have expected it
would be a cause to sink her RfA, or that it was banned for her to do
so.  After all, she is a registered user who uses open proxies and has
not been banned or told not to use them.

Adminship is political at Wikipedia--it's voted on, for all it not
being called a vote, requires a candidacy and platform and public
questioning.

It seems unlikely had she actually looked at this she would have been
so stunned at being asked it in her own RfA.

KP