[Wikipedia-l] Cheating on logo voting

[Jimmy Wales]

Perhaps we could count the votes in multiple ways in order to see if
they are legitimate, and whether it affects the outcome?

For example: (1) count all votes (2) count all votes except those from
anon. ips.  (3) count all votes for users who are 'substantial'
contributors.  If there's no difference in the final results, then we
just don't worry about it.

It would be interesting to see if there is any one contribution that
is getting a lot of 'illegal' votes.  If so, we could take appropriate
action.

Daniel Mayer wrote:

> OK, I'm a bit pissed. The first two voting "users" who I checked don't have 
> /any/ Wikipedia contributions. They linked to their user pages on de.wiki so 
> I checked their contribs;
> 
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Spezial:Contributions&target=AzzKikr&limit=500&offset=0
> 	Only contrib /ever/ was to create a user page
> 
> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Spezial:Contributions&target=Andybauer&limit=500&offset=0
> 	No contribs at all for this account
> 
> This is beyond the pale. I hereby call for a recount and a validation of every 
> vote; in order to have a vote counted each and every person should have to 
> declare which Wikipedia they are a contributor to and to provide a link to 
> their Wikipedia user page. 
> 
> I'm not willing to propose what the defintion of a "contributor" is at the 
> moment, but certainly the two "users" above do not fit the bill. 
> 
> -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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