Do we routinely check all Admin applicants to see if they are sock-puppets?
Should we start doing so? ----- "Fred Bauder" <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > From: "Fred Bauder" <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Monday, 8 June, 2009 20:04:54 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Daily Mail article on Sam Blacketer case > > > > The harm to our public image comes from the fact that a senior trusted > > user has managed to deceive Wikipedia over a number of years and our > > systems were inadequate to deal with this. > > > > I hope there will be an honest debate in Wikipedia about how we can make > > sure this doesn't happen again. Coming not that long after the Essjay > > controversy, requiring trusted users to verify their identities seems > > like a sensible response. > > > > Andrew > > > > That is part of what is tricky, we do require verification of identity > for those who have the oversight and checkuser tools, but he never asked > for those, and so as a mere arbitrator, was never asked. > > Fred > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l