[WikiEN-l] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SOCK

[FT2]

What I'm wondering is how a campaign whose centerpiece is ppivoted upon
deception ofeditors, is planning to fight "corruption"? This sounds an ideal
route to being the corrupt themself.

I suspect the aspect how exactly having a dozen admin accounts would help
them improve integrity, reduce unfair or improper actions and so on, has not
fully crossed their mind.........

It's easy to fight against "the corruption" or "the bureaucracy" --
impressive sounding "things" both. But specifying exactly what corrupt
activities deception will help with, and which bureaucratic issues will be
removed by additional use of adminship, is not included. "Please give us
your admin accounts for a noble cause that we're not going to explain a
thing about how we are rather improbably going to further it".

Probably wise that they didn't try to explain, given the user's mindset. The
bemusement value would have been significant for this list.......

FT2


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Jay Litwyn <brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
> wrote:

> Your application to an administrator for becoming an administrator should
> probably be denied. To my knowledge, Ms. Brady does not know you well
> enough
> to understand your motivation for becoming an administrator. Since she made
> your application public, I suspect that she may even find your application
> to be a threatening evasion of the normal process for becoming an
> administrator. Furthermore, since you claim to represent a party, and not a
> single being with your references to "we", I think your account should be
> watched for evidence of sock-puppetry. Entrusting an account with special
> rights to an account that may already reprezent several users is clearly
> outside of [[WP:SOCK]] policy.
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> Dear X,
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> We notice you haven't edited Wikipedia for some time. Perhaps you grew
> disillusioned with the project after seeing the corruption and bureaucracy
> at every level? If so, why not help us to help you. We are currently
> expanding our portfolio of administrator accounts, and as yours remains
> dormant perhaps you could consider donating it to us - to do so will take
> you only two minutes: change the password (if desired) and then reply to
> this email with your login details. We'll do the rest!
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration, and naturally do not hesitate to
> contact us if you have any questions.
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