[Foundation-l] Using someone's real name instead of his wikiname

Mon Aug 21 13:45:04 UTC 2006

Hoi,
I do disagree utterly.

I would be interested to see to what extend Waerth has made this connection.
I am of the opinion that there should be no link between peopel IRL and
people in their Wikimedia persona. There are few people where a link with
their real life persona is justifiable, Jimmy Wales is one. Even Angela asks
to have her article removed once her tenure as a board member has ended.

It is not polite to say the least.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 8/21/06, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2006/8/21, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com>:
> > Maybe it's worthwhile to split the discussion, and focus on the
> > original question, in which answer I am quite interested in too:
> >
> > Is this a Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy violation?
>
> No, I would not say so. The only part of the privacy policy that I see
> could apply here, is:
>
> When you edit any page in the wiki, you are publishing a document.
> This is a public act, and you are identified publicly with that edit
> as its author.
>
> That is, anything you write on Wikipedia is public. Given that Walter
> has himself made the connection in Wikipedia posts, it is public.
>
> Of course, this does NOT mean that Muijz's behavior is ok. It just
> means that him doing it, and the Wikimedia Foundation doing nothing
> against it, would not be against our privacy policy.
>
>
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