You have clearly not read the policy. For the record,
it clearly says that protecting identity is a
legitimate use for multiple accounts.
Norath
Multiple accounts have legitimate uses. For example,
prominent users may wish to experience Wikipedia to
understand how the community functions for those new
to the community. In particular, some have suggested
that Jimbo should get, and edit from, a sock puppet
account. Perhaps he does.
Other users employ multiple accounts to segregate
their contributions for various reasons. A user making
substantial contributions to an area of interest in
Wikipedia might register another account to be used
solely in connection with developing that area.
Users with an expertise in mathematics, for example,
might not wish to associate their contributions to
detailed mathematical articles with contributions to
articles about less weighty subjects. Others might use
different accounts in talk pages to avoid extending
conflicts about a particular area of interest into
communitywide political conflicts related to user
identity rather than to article content. A person
participating in a discussion of an article about
abortion, for example, might not want to allow other
participants an opportunity to extend that discussion
by engaging a particular user in unrelated but
philosophically motivated debate outside of that
discussion.
Multiple accounts also serve to protect identity.
Someone who is known to the public or within a
particular circle may be identifiable based on their
interests and contributions; dividing these up between
different accounts might help preserve the person's
anonymity.
--- Skyring <skyring(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/7/05, David Gerard
<fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au>
wrote:
And part of declaring the sock is
saying who it is. Edits aren't anonymous on
Wikipedia and particularly not
in the project pages.
Beg pardon? Edits aren't anonymous?
Since when?
--
Pete, who can show you a long list of anonymous
edits on just about
any article you care to name.
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