[Foundation-l] Ombudsman Commission: Verification of checkuser results

[Anders Wegge Jakobsen]

Dmcdevit <dmcdevit at cox.net> writes:

> Nathan Carter wrote:
> > Hi,
> > As most of you should be aware I am currently a member of the Ombudsman
> > Commission (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission)
> >
> > One of my current complaints involves a user who disputes the results of a
> > CU, as I do not have checkuser access on enwiki how would I go about
> > verifying the results?
> > Regards,
> > Nathan Carter (Cartman02au)
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> >
> >   
> I doubt most people are aware that that commission exists, actually, 
> but, as a checkuser myself, I would ask you 1) Why you are going about 
> verifying disputed results?

 Quoting
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Ombudsperson_checkuser>:

    "The ombudsman will take charge of investigating cases of privacy
     policy breach *or checkuser abuse* for the board in an official
     manner." (My emphasis)

 There are more issues than just privacy issues at stake.
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