Does that make sense though? With an account called "Starwarrior", say, there is no way of knowing who made the edit either.
Andreas On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: > I thought it was just a matter of accountability. With a role account, > there is no way of knowing who actually made an edit. > On Apr 29, 2012 2:18 AM, "Richard Symonds" <chasemew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> All, >> >> Me and a close friend were having a rather heated debate tonight on the >> topic of role accounts, and I am hoping you (as a community) can answer my >> question: >> >> Why do we ban role accounts? >> >> I was of the understanding that it was something to do with >> copyright/legal issues, but it's been a few years since I passed RfA, and >> I'm struggling to remember the arguments that I once remembered so well. I >> had a trawl through all the appropriate pages on meta and enwp, and >> although I could find out that role accounts *were* blocked, I couldn't >> see the justification behind it mentioned anywhere >> >> I'm not disagreeing with the policy, but I was wondering if anyone knew >> the reasoning behind it - and why said reasoning isn't included in the >> policy pages? >> >> All the best, >> >> Chase >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > >
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