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

[Andrew Turvey]

Do we routinely check all Admin applicants to see if they are sock-puppets? 

Should we start doing so? 

----- "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote: 
> From: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 20:04:54 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Daily Mail article on Sam Blacketer case 
> 
> 
> > 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 
> 
> 
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