[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[K P]

On 6/18/07, 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.

This isn't a fanciful tale supposing CW's ignorance of the "no open
proxies" policy.  What it is a comment about her expectations or not
of being allowed to use it.  Why wouldn't she know that they would
show up in check user?  It's one of the few things even, I, a web
idiot can figure out, that other editors using the same IP will show
up in check user checks.

So, yes, in all likelihood she knew that her TOR showed up in check
user requests, if she knew they were banned, and knew that hers had
been seen and was not banned.

There's nothing fanciful here at all, or fabulous.
>
> > After all, she is a registered user who uses open proxies and has
> > not been banned or told not to use them.
>
> That doesn't even logically follow. Armedblowfish wasn't banned for
> using TOR proxies either, but it was also made clear that there would
> be no exceptions made for him using them, he would have to edit from
> real IPs

Yes, it does logically follow that she has been allowed to use them,
so she might not expect to be torpedoes for using them.  I saw the
question about the open proxies but didn't follow the result that
blowfish was told he couldn't use them.  Still, CW was allowed to edit
from open proxies, probably knew she was allowed to edit from them, at
least 3 admins know she edits from them, and no one blocked her or
made mention of them until it came to her RfA.
>
> > It seems unlikely had she actually looked at this she would have been
> > so stunned at being asked it in her own RfA.
>
> No, what seems unlikely are the increasingly fabulous tales being
> advanced here regarding CW's complete ignorance of this policy, and
> the inappropriateness of using proxies.
>

"Fabulous tales"  etc., etc.

Open proxies apparently aren't all the inappropriate as registered
users in good standing are allowed to use them.

KP