[WikiEN-l] Editing with open proxies

[Ray Saintonge]

Slim Virgin wrote:

> I'm not sure that would help, unless we're willing to employ
>
>investigators to make sure people have faxed the Foundation the right
>ID. And knowing that Admin A is called Bill Smith in real life doesn't
>tell us whether he's a banned or malicious user.
>
Agreed.

>As I see it, what we need to start doing as a minimum, is stop
>promoting people who've spent a few months hitting revert every few
>seconds. That kind of profile tells us nothing about the person, and
>it's too easy to build up several accounts that way. 
>
Getting rid of the RfA question about what people are doing to revert 
vandals might help with this.

>And we need to
>ditch the "it's no big deal" thing. It's not for us to decide that
>it's "no big deal" when hurtful material deleted from Wikipedia ends
>up on Wikitruth, just because the material's not about us. The
>existence of Wikitruth is a direct consequence of the "it's no big
>deal" mentality.
>
What they do on their website is their business.

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