QUOTE(Deodand @ Tue 8th September 2009, 12:55pm)
Ahh, but you don't see. If it was to be known that that person used Wikipedia - what a scandal! The idea that an unknown, nun-loving genderfuck DJ should tarnish his good name by editing Wikipedia!
The infamy!
This is nothing new, of course - WP'ers have a long history of this sort of thing. They want to believe that "editing" is a dangerous, personally risky activity, because that affirms their collective self-image as revolutionaries and iconoclasts. Maintaining their own privacy is paramount, because illusory "IRL threats" could get in the way of their vital mission to destroy whatever's left of academic and journalistic tradition.
Meanwhile, everyone else can go stuff it - "privacy is a quaint and antiquated notion" for anybody who fits someone's arbitrary definition of "notable," as JoshuaZ or Shankers might say.