2009/10/27 Mike.lifeguard <mike.lifegu...@gmail.com>: > You are a long way from proving your point, but I would encourage you to > make that request on the talk page of the CheckUser policy page on > English Wikipedia so it can be pointed out that while there is a public > request process, most requests are made in private, or done of a > CheckUser's own volition. That is true, and it may be a worthwhile piece > of information - though I can think of reasons the enwiki CUs may not > want it included. If the public request process isn't necessary then > they may be innundated with requests in private. The public process > serves as a filter to keep away spurious requests. By not advertising > it, private requests tend to be more reliable since it would be people > "in the know" who would make those requests.
en:WP:RFCU was actually created to stop people bugging the checkusers so much ;-) Checks are done because of public requests, but also because (a) there's an investigation by the arbcom and they want second or third opinions or (b) because there's a cross-wiki vandal and so people check on their local wiki as well. That's most of the cases on the functionaries-en and checkuser-l lists. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l