[WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

[Durova]

If the username of this individual is discovered, I would gladly bring the
individual to RFAR and request desysopping.  This is the opposite of what we
entrust administrators to do.

-Durova

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Wilhelm Schnotz <wilhelm at nixeagle.org>wrote:

> Who ever the admin is violated our copyright policies at the very
> least as I am sure he did not give the original contributor credit
> (that is assuming that the original contributor even has the right to
> post that).
>
> For an admin to do that is probably a good reason to lose the bit.
>
> On 1/7/09, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123129220146959621.html
> >
> > "John Soong, 18, says that after he had failed to get jobs at several
> > chains that use the test, he began to poke around for an answer key,
> > driven by "altruistic, and maybe vengeful," motives. In a discussion
> > section of a Wikipedia entry, he saw a mention of a set of Unicru
> > statements and answers that had been posted there but removed. Using
> > privileges as a volunteer Wikipedia administrator, which gave him
> > access to deleted page histories, Mr. Soong, a University of Virginia
> > student, was able to recover the answer key and re-post it on
> > Facebook."
> >
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