[WikiEN-l] Delete Daniel Brandt

Sun Jun 11 17:54:55 UTC 2006

On 6/11/06, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 11, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Sean Barrett wrote:
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> > See also Terrorists#negotiating with
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> I agree. And I made that decision for myself when I switched to using
> my real name on Wikipedia.
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> But that's not a decision Wikipedia has the right to make for me. It
> is not a government, and I am not its citizen.

But it will only make things worse, though.  Brandt is neither
particularly well-connected nor particularly unique in his talents,
such as they are; and I have little doubt that secondary copies of the
Hivemind pages exist.  What you're proposing is open season on
blackmailing Wikipedia -- whether to obtain deletion or (even worse!)
actual changes to articles -- by anyone who can threaten to put up
admins' personal information.

-- 
Kirill Lokshin