On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote: > > Totally agree. I think it is reasonable that candidates should be > asked to reveal their wikimedia user names (I'm not sure it should be > made compulsory though), but demanding that they reveal all their > multifarious online identities unrelated to wikimedia is going way too > far, and would be an unenforceable and unwarranted invasion of > privacy. > > Andrew
Personally I would also agree. We also have to balance the need for voters to have all the information they reasonably require to make their decision with a need to encourage people to come forward to stand for election. Pseudonymity is still very much a part of the internet, and many people still run blogs, twitter accounts and so forth on that basis. If they're not related to Wikimedia, I'm not sure I understand why people should be compelled to reveal them - or indeed how such a rule could ever be enforced. I'd rather leave it up to the voters to decide. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
