Thanks, Molly. I encouraged people interested in understanding the different views on the topic as it relates to Wikipedia English (and perhaps other wikis) to read this discussion.
Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians, Co-founder WikiWomen User Group, Co-founder WikiConference North America Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation, Member of Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:11 PM, GorillaWarfare < gorillawarfarewikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Following up, this is the conversation I was remembering: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Harassment/Archive_11 > > – Molly (GorillaWarfare) > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:59 AM, GorillaWarfare < > gorillawarfarewikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Pine, > > > > We quite rarely receive requests to look into suspicions of paid editing > > based on private information. We have historically been reluctant to act > on > > them for a number of reasons: it's very prone to error, it's often an > > incredible amount of work, and we open ourselves up personally to legal > > risk by doing so. I believe there was some discussion on this onwiki > around > > six months ago, I will try to dig up a link. > > > > – Molly (GorillaWarfare) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>