[WikiEN-l] SlimVirgin and CheckUser leaks

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 20 Jul 2008 at 13:34:19 +0100, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 2008/7/20 private musings <thepmaccount at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I'd like to formally request here that a checkuser notify me as to when
> > checkuser was used on my current accout, User:Privatemusings, and also on my
> > previous accounts User:Purples, and User:Petesmiles.
> 
> I would suggest that you think there's a problem because you were
> caught out sockpuppeting egregiously, and still don't think you did
> anything wrong. In your case I can't see a thing the system did wrong.

That's one way of spinning the Private Musings saga, but I think a 
more reasonable way would be to note that he was using an alternate 
account to participate in internal Wikipolitics of a somewhat 
controversial nature (e.g., the great BADSITES wars), while using his 
then-main account to do much less controversial, and site-content 
oriented, things.  This was, at the time, at least arguably permitted 
by the policy (though there was some ambiguity).  His political 
enemies then proceeded, in conjunction with tightening up this 
policy, with enforcing the new understanding of the policy 
retroactively on him.

Sockpuppetry for the purpose of involving oneself in political 
struggles has always been treated with a double standard depending on 
whether the person who does it is in the "favored class" or out of 
it.

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