[Foundation-l] Board Election 2008 : fake candidature ?

Sun Jun 1 22:03:20 UTC 2008

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From: "Casey Brown" <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Board Election 2008 : fake candidature ?

> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk> 
> wrote:
>> I thought I recognised the name; but he claims to be active on 
>> en:wikipedia,
>> which cannot be true.
>> Not everyone will check this out, particularly from other wikis, and
>> therefore this must be miselading.
>> Notwithstanding his bona fides elsewhere, should this not be made more
>> apparent to voters?
>
> I think he said he had another username on enwiki that he uses.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Arise_Sir_Loin_of_Beef>
>
> -- 
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023

That account, too, is blocked for sockpuppetry. Do we seriously have rules 
that allow multiply-blocked editors to stand for election to the Foundation 
even though they may be in good standing elsewhere? Maybe some time ago, but 
this was only blocked six weeks ago.

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