Well, jayjg, let's put you in this situation. You have elected for your own personal reasons not to edit with the account everyone knows you by for some time. What those reasons are, I have no idea and no right or interest in knowing. For all intents and purposes, you have exercised your right to vanish. That is to be respected. But just for the sake of this example, let's say you exercised that right to vanish because you felt there was some risk to your personal security if you were to continue editing as "jayjg."
But you still have an abiding faith in the project, and wish to continue participating. So you create a new account and continue to write your usual level of fine contributions. You clean up articles. You participate in some higher level projects, like FA or DYK. You participate in discussions on ANI or some policy or other, you help a new user, you use wikification and edit summaries accurately, and know how to make templates. You make an occasional humorous or snide remark on some talk page. You tell a few close associates of your new identity, entrusting them with this information and asking them to keep it close to their vests because of your security concerns. Nobody raises any concerns about the quality of your work in any forum. In other words, you behave as a highly motivated, positive, and valuable contributor to the project. There is absolutely no logical reason for anyone to have concerns about your participation. It is a sad truth that to some people in administrative roles on wikipedia, that you would look exactly like a sleeper sock being built up for adminship. Jayjg, even you are not immune to being mistakenly identified in this way.
Risker
On 11/27/07, jayjg jayjg99@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 27, 2007 1:56 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
The fact that ANY administrator believed that a pre-emptive block of a possible sockpuppet was acceptable behaviour is the problem. It is a systemic issue and there is absolutely no reason to believe that Durova
is
the only administrator who thought that way; in fact, there seem to be administrators posting in this thread who feel that such actions are perfectly acceptable.
Name them please.
And it is this systemic issue that is causing the continued churning of this issue. Durova is not the problem. It is the culture that nurtured her belief that this level of sleuthing was
beneficial
to the project.
Your claiming there is a "systemic issue" or "culture that nurtured her belief" doesn't make it so.
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