[Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On 07.09.2013 00:12, Lars Gardenius wrote:
  People are much less willing to attack someone who they feel they
> know. The persons who still attack are often mentally instable and
> easy to track and report to the police.
> 
> Regards,
> lars Gardenius
> 

Are you fucking serious? I was editing under my real name for three 
years, and even now my real name is pretty easy to figure out. At one 
point, in the Russian Wikipedia, I protected an article to prevent a 
vanity editing of a lady who claimed to be a psychologist and the 
chairwoman of some union of psychologist. As a revenge, she made a 
search, found my university website, and published a piece where she 
made, on the alleged claim she is a psychologist, some very suggestive 
(and wrong) statements about my sexual orientation, my IQ, and my mental 
health. What police you are talking about? Dutch police? They would not 
care about a piece written in Russian and published in Russia. Russian 
police? They are worse than ordinary criminals, and it would be crazy to 
go to them and ask for something. Formally, there is no attack anyway, 
but the piece was still published, indexed by search engines, and 
noticed by some of the people I know.

Cheers
Yaroslav