[WikiEN-l] Ramifications to wikipedians of unmasking of police blogger?

[Sam Blacketer]

Whatever one thinks of the decision by The Times to run a story about him,
it is plainly right that he should not have been able to maintain his
anonymity through the courts. It would have been very surprising if the
court had found otherwise.

Attempting to find the real person behind a literary pseudonym has a long
heritage; one of the stories that Hitler Diaries journalist Gerd Heidemann
worked on for Stern magazine was about the identity of famed and mysterious
German thriller writer B. Traven, for instance. The real identity of 'Simon
Haxey', who wrote one very well-informed book about the internal workings of
the Conservative Party in the late 1930s, is still unknown.

As Oscar Wilde wrote, if one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to
be found out. Take it from one who knows.

-- 
Sam Blacketer