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

[Ray Saintonge]

Eagle 101 wrote:

>The primary reason for blocking proxies of any kind is to make sock puppetry
>very difficult.
>
I know that much, but my point was not about the apparent reason for 
this policy; it was about how such policies are adopted.  When it 
happens in the mediawiki namespace, I question the reliability of the 
consensus.  If the policy is a good one it should have no trouble being 
accepted in a more public place.

Ec

>On 6/18/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
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>>Blu Aardvark wrote:
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>>>jayjg wrote:
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>>>>That page was an essay. It wasn't even a guideline, and certainly not policy.
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>>>It may not have been explicit policy, but it was linked to from
>>>[[MediaWiki:blockedtext]] for some time, and if that doesn't indicate a
>>>reasonable consensus, I don't know what does.
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>>So who ever pays a lot of attention to [[MediaWiki:blockedtext]], or,
>>for that matter, anything on the Mediawiki namespace?  How can a
>>consensus be viewed as reliable when it appears to have developed on an
>>obscure corner that no-one ever visits?
>>