[WikiEN-l] Multiple Accounts

Sat Jul 31 20:09:22 UTC 2004

Most people do not use their extra accounts to be
disruptive, and therefore a justifiable value
judgement is made among arbitrators, as to the
disruptiveness of a user's editing patterns. "Sock
puppetry" as Andrew said, is limited in definition to
the use of extra accounts to engage in
misrepresentation and disruption.

S

--- Harry Smith <lance6wins at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >From the arbitration policy page:
> Arbitrators with multiple accounts on Wikipedia will
> disclose the usernames of those accounts to the rest
> of the committee, and to Jimbo Wales, but are not
> required to disclose them publicly.
> 
> I am surprised....I have been told that folks are
> not
> supposed to have more than one account on Wikipedia.
> 
> Yet this seems to indicate that having more than one
> account is not unexpected.
> 
> Help.
> 
> Lance6Wins
> 
> 
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