Fred Bauder wrote: >> While I am all about openness and journalism, I had a recent incident >> which made me re-think something on these lines. >> I had a few years back, started creating an open visible >> search-indexed index to ArbCom proceedings. >> Some editors however edit using their real names, not something I >> would necessarily recommend if you end up at ArbCom and then a >> search on your name, get's a top Goog because of an index like mine. >> >> People will common names could simply say it's someone else, but >> people with rare names like Dror Kamir for example, might have some >> intrepid employer say, "Oh Gee you were involved in that whole >> xxxx versus yyyy big controversy in Wikipedia, I don't think your >> personality would be a good fit here...." >> >> I can see it happening in this connected age, I have done it myself >> when propositioning a new client, to see what's out there on them. >> I decided to make my index invisible temporarily while I mull this >> over more. >> >> Will Johnson > > I've noticed that old crap from years ago doesn't show on on your eBay > feedback rating. I appreciate that. And, frankly, if someone is doing > good work on Wikipedia now, who cares about some big blowup years ago? > > Fred
An excellent point. Someone please let ArbCom know this. User:Rodhullandemu _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
