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

[Unionhawk]

I was also absent during the BADSITES war, but... Anomnity is important.
--Unionhawk

Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:58:08 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:
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>> Is anonymity important to many Wikipedia contributors? I had sort of
>> assumed we provided anonymity as a sort of courtesy, not as any real
>> right.
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> You were apparently absent during the BADSITES Wars of a couple of 
> years ago, where one of the principle arguments for draconian stands 
> against linking to so-called "attack sites", and for McCarthyite 
> witchhunts against anybody seen as in any way connected with them, 
> was that those sites were engaged in "outing" Wikipedians.
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