Why? IMO it will protect users from being impersonated. It will allow us to more easily have taken down Fivver and Upworks accounts that are pretending to be established Wikipedians.
How would this leak anything? People involve with paid editor are already required to disclose the intermediaries through which they work and this does not change that. James On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 6:19 PM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, bad idea. Can't be done and will only lead to stalking and > alienating users. (Or rather it can be done, but would imply leakage of > identifiable information to such a degree that it would put the involved > organizations on the front pages for weeks.) > > John Erling Blad > /jeblad > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 5:40 PM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have started a meta RfC regarding the above* here > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ > > interlinking_of_accounts_involved_with_paid_editing_to_ > > decrease_impersonation>.* > > > > This is to help address issues of impersonation of established > Wikipedians > > by paid editors. > > > > Further thoughts appreciated. Best > > -- > > James Heilman > > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
