[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 50, Issue 169

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 24 Sep 2007 at 20:45:31 -0400, "Armed Blowfish" 
<diodontida.armata at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps all users should be prohibited from contributing under or
> revealing their real names on WP, to prevent this sort of thing from
> happening.  Those who have already done so could have their
> usernames changed and their names removed from WP.

That would be a step in the entirely wrong direction.  Wikipedia 
makes too much of a fetish out of preserving "anonymity" as it is, at 
the expense of accountability.  While I wouldn't want to go as far as 
Citizendium in requiring real name use all the time, the opposite 
approach you're advocating, of using all fake names, is even worse.

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