Following up, this is the conversation I was remembering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Harassment/Archive_11
– Molly (GorillaWarfare)
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:59 AM, GorillaWarfare <
gorillawarfarewikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Pine,
We quite rarely receive requests to look into suspicions of paid editing
based on private information. We have historically been reluctant to act on
them for a number of reasons: it's very prone to error, it's often an
incredible amount of work, and we open ourselves up personally to legal
risk by doing so. I believe there was some discussion on this onwiki around
six months ago, I will try to dig up a link.
– Molly (GorillaWarfare)