QUOTE(MBisanz @ Mon 7th September 2009, 8:49pm)
Careful Peter, as anyone in an AFD debate will tell you, that page is only a content guideline, and a policy like outing or a behavioral guideline like conflict of interest would supersede it any day of the week.
And indeed 'harassment' trumps even COI:
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When investigating possible cases of COI editing, Wikipedians must be careful not to reveal the identity of other editors. Wikipedia's policy against harassment takes precedence over this guideline on conflict of interest. An editor's conflict of interest is often revealed when that editor discloses a relationship to the subject of the article to which the editor is contributing. Where an editor does not disclose an existing affiliation or other conflict of interest, carefully following Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy may help counteract biased editing.
But as I have pointed out, identifying someone who has a public persona and is already known, as a Wikipedia editor, is not OUTing. Outing is giving personal details about someone who wishes to remain anonymous. If I find that Obama contributes to Wikipedia, and I say this, as that outing? No.
This case is odd in that the article was about a pseudonymous character. But no harm is done in asserting that this character wrote the article about themself in Wikipedia. So long as the real live name or address of the character is not revealed, there is no problem.
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