Cristina, I will not try to give you any advice on this. But what I do in those cases (I already received lots of threaning e-mails and some phone calls - also several wiki-attacks) and basically what I do is inform the ISP (in case when I know the IP adress) or block any call from that number (in case of phone calls). And basically ignore it.
>From my experience in pt.wiki, as long as you give them much attention, they will never stop. So - in my case - ignore it works. ... but I - in your place - would remove the Userbox from the page, just in case. _____ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal <http://wikimedia.pt> (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* On 13 November 2011 20:41, Christine Meyer <christinewme...@gmail.com>wrote: > I've heard about this kind of thing happening to other women in Wikipedia, > but this is the first time this has ever happened to me personally. A few > weeks ago, I got a phone call from a guy who said he wanted to talk to me > about what it was like being the parent of children with special needs. He > also said that he got my number from my church, so I told him that I was > busy at the moment (which I was) and that he could call me back later. > > Yesterday afternoon, he called me back. I asked him where he got my > number and how he found out about my parenting status. He said that he > read what I had written on Wikipedia about my children, and that he wanted > to talk to me about it because he was also developmentally disabled and had > some "syndrome" that I didn't recognize. (It wasn't Asberger's, I don't > think.) He also said that he had gotten my number from "some church > thing," and that they had confirmed my phone number. > > I told him that it was very inappropriate for him to call me, and he said, > "Well, you said I could call you back!" I answered that I was in the > middle of something the first time he called me, repeated how inappropriate > he was being, and that I wasn't willing to speak with him over the phone. > He said, "You said all that on Wikipedia," and I said that I didn't have my > phone number there, to which he responded, "But your email address is > there," and I said he could email me but calling me was again, > inappropriate, and we hung up. > > Like I said, it was the first time something like this has happened, even > after more than four years of active participation in WP. It's somewhat > disconcerting to me. When I think about it, this guy had to actively hunt > down my phone number. He looked at my userpage, which has infoboxes > stating that I'm a parent of two children with developmental disabilities, > that I live in a small town in Idaho, and that I'm Catholic. (This makes > me want to remove those infoboxes.) He actually went to the trouble of > calling one of the the two Catholic churches in my town and confirm my > number with them, which they did quite honestly because I'm on a church > committee and active in the community. Freaky, huh? > > I know that you need to tell people when something like this happens, > especially people in your life. (I haven't been able to tell my husband > about it yet; he's been working all weekend and we're coming off of a > particularly stressful family situation.) So that's what I'm doing now. I > can totally see why so many women don't identify their gender on WP now. > I'd also like to get some advice from the members of this list, and to see > if anyone else has had a similar experience and what they did about it. > > Thanks, > Christine > -- > Christine W. Meyer > User: Figureskatingfan > christinewme...@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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