[WikiEN-l] Looking at the real world

Sat Sep 3 10:51:28 UTC 2005

On 9/3/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> James D. Forrester wrote:
> 
> >geni wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On 9/2/05, Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>In the past day, [[user:jtdirl]] has published my name and address, and
> >>>[[user:mackensen]] has accused me of criminal acts.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>People who play with fire get burned.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >And further, accessing a computer system without authorisation is
> >illegal in the US, the UK, and Australia, to name but a few countries;
> >given that you are banned from Wikipedia, any edits that you were to
> >make would constitute such an illegal act. Several sysops, and not just
> >Mackensen, have suggested that you may well be doing this, violating
> >your ban order. Perhaps you might want to think about finding another
> >place to play, Skyring?
> >
> >
> I would have a hard time using this to justify the publication of
> someone's personal information on Wikipedia. 

Skyring's name and address were removed pretty sharply. They are no
longer on Wikipedia. James was pointing out that [[user:mackensen]]
was justified in accusing Skyring of criminal acts.

Theresa