[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single user login

[Aphaia]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Anon Sricharoenchai <anon.hui at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/8/08, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >  4. If they can't find any final agreement, then user123 will never be
>  >  >  merged forever, or until they can make the agreement in anytime later.
>  >  >   The conflicting status will be held until they can make the
>  >  >  agreement.
>  >
>  >
>  > Basically agree, but for example, if A at aawiki argues B at bbwiki was his
>  >  impostor, and B denies, but actually B was in a bad faith and has a
>  >  sockpuppet on aawiki? Again, a third party judgment may benefit to
>  >  solve some situations.
>
>  Mr. A must show the evidence to sysop, that Mr. B is acting as an
>  impostor of Mr. A.  Then Mr. A can request sysop to rename the
>  impostor's account.
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  5. In the case that Mr. B is an inactive user that Mr. A can't even
>  >  >  contact to discuss for the agreement, there will be some expire time
>  >  >  (may be one year) that, if Mr. B not response before this expire time,
>  >  >  user123 of Mr. B will be forced to be renamed.
>  >
>  >
>  > One year sounds too long. I found an impostor in a small wiki, and it
>  >  was on a bad faith in my opinion. Should I then wait for one year for
>  >  getting this account?
>
>  Same answer as above.
>
>
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  5.1 There will be some mechanism to let Mr. B to leave a message that
>  >  >  he agree for his user to be renamed or not.
>  >  >  5.2 If Mr. B leave the message "not agree", he must talk to Mr. A
>  >  >  until they meet the same agreement.
>  >
>  >
>  > It works only both parties are really on a good faith. We see many bad
>  >  guy create impostor accounts and claim they just want to edit. Your
>  >  words sounds good but not practical imo.
>  >
>
>  Do you think that showing impostor evidence to sysop is practical or not?

Not always practical, since there is no assurance all the involved
party can speak same language. To find it is an enourmous work in some
case, so it is not feasible to have each affected people deal with the
issue by themselves.

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