[WikiEN-l] Daily Mail article on Sam Blacketer case

[Fred Bauder]

> The harm to our public image comes from the fact that a senior trusted
> user has managed to deceive Wikipedia over a number of years and our
> systems were inadequate to deal with this.
>
> I hope there will be an honest debate in Wikipedia about how we can make
> sure this doesn't happen again. Coming not that long after the Essjay
> controversy, requiring trusted users to verify their identities seems
> like a sensible response.
>
> Andrew
>

That is part of what is tricky, we do require verification of identity
for those who have the oversight and checkuser tools, but he never asked
for those, and so as a mere arbitrator, was never asked.

Fred