On 13 Nov 2005, at 07.10, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
Hi Anthere
Checks should be done only on accounts doing
abusive edits to
Wikipedia
(vandalism, insults, spam, defaming etc...)
If checks are done without any relevant reasons related to abuse, then
those checks are abusive and the person with the checkuser access
should
(will) lose it.
Just like admins wrongfully blocking accounts are also supposed to
have their admin status revoked? Please realize that the two actions
have very different worst cases.
Blocking: Worst case: You do not get to write in Wikipedia for a while.
/No/, you did not heed my email about my situation. The worst case is
that one person is blocked who is the only person that can spot and fix
mistakes in articles that are getting more exposure, and that can
dispel wrong and harmful comments in the talk pages. The longer the
absence, the more that readers will think that the last word is true,
when the qualified party is kept from having it. The wrongful policers
must be punished for disrupting communications.
-Aut