[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[David Gerard]

On 18/06/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

> As far as I know 3 checkusers knew of it, but CW would *have no way of
> knowing that*. I'm not sure why people are spinning ever more fanciful
> yarns about CW's ignorance of this policy, in the face of nearly
> irrefutable evidence that CW was well aware of it.


I managed to miss it as well and if you'd asked me if it was a policy
not to edit through open proxies, I'd say "uh, what on earth?"
Speaking as someone who blocks them whenever he spots one.


- d.