On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Jay Litwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The meatpuppet supposition is wrong. In order to get a meatpuppet (and I do > not think very many people work as any kind of puppet), first you hav to > state your case to someone who is not an administrator and get them to side > with you. In the simple case, you would submit your edit to them via e-mail > and say: Would you do this for me? (Why should I?) A lot of wikipedians > don't read their e-mail. Supposing someone to be a puppet goes against the > assumption of good faith. It's like assuming that someone set up a bot > account to mask submissions from anyone.
Most meatpuppetry that seems real is a matter of getting RL personal friends to edit on one's behalf. Some Wikipedia editors / admins seem to describe people who are here as a result of offsite canvassing to be "meatpuppets", but I'm not sure that that is an appropriate use of the term. Sockpuppetry is much, much more common than the former case. -Matt _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
