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[WordBomb]

In case it's not obvious...Seand59 was likely the username of her late husband prior to his untimely passing (Sean Doran was born in 1959).

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[the fieryangel]

In case it's not obvious...Seand59 was likely the username of her late husband prior to his untimely passing (Sean Doran was born in 1959).

Yes but according to this, he died in 1999. What's she doing using his name for a sock account?

[thekohser]

In case it's not obvious...Seand59 was likely the username of her late husband prior to his untimely passing (Sean Doran was born in 1959).

Yes but according to this, he died in 1999. What's she doing using his name for a sock account?

One would say "honoring his memory".

[the fieryangel]

In case it's not obvious...Seand59 was likely the username of her late husband prior to his untimely passing (Sean Doran was born in 1959).

Yes but according to this, he died in 1999. What's she doing using his name for a sock account?

One would say "honoring his memory".

Yes, you could say that, especially in the AGF Wikiworld....

More evidence that the WMF didn't know about this...and others did, but they didn't listen...

From Moreschi, of all people:

LOL, chaps. This is all completely true. The woman's in prison - the Register have got their facts absolutely correct. I've known about this for yonks but didn't tell anyone.

The really amazing thing is that nobody from WMF seems to have known. I remember obliquely quizzing Anthere about this on IRC one merry evening - she either genuinely did not know what had happened or she lied through her teeth to me. What was passing through her mind, I don't know. Someone must have known though...Sue Gardner? She basically seems to have got Carolyn's job. The jail records are pretty much all available on the web, though...hell, I've even got them still bookmarked AFAIK. Cheers, [[User:Moreschi|Moreschi]] ^{[[User:Moreschi/If|If you've written a quality article...]]} 14:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[anthony]

LOL, chaps. This is all completely true. The woman's in prison - the Register have got their facts absolutely correct. I've known about this for yonks but didn't tell anyone.

The really amazing thing is that nobody from WMF seems to have known. I remember obliquely quizzing Anthere about this on IRC one merry evening - she either genuinely did not know what had happened or she lied through her teeth to me. What was passing through her mind, I don't know. Someone must have known though...Sue Gardner? She basically seems to have got Carolyn's job. The jail records are pretty much all available on the web, though...hell, I've even got them still bookmarked AFAIK. Cheers, [[User:Moreschi|Moreschi]] ^{[[User:Moreschi/If|If you've written a quality article...]]} 14:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

The WMF and Carolyn signed a confidentiality agreement around the time of her departure, so they must have known *something*. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikie...ber/081166.html

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[the fieryangel]

The WMF and Carolyn signed a confidentiality agreement around the time of her departure, so they must have known *something*.

This is something that I can't figure out. A "confidentiality agreement" is generally forced upon the departing employee to protect the company, not the other way around.

If they had known about this, they would have had more than enough grounds to fire her.

If they signed an agreement with her, they must have had motivation to do so. Did they agree to sign this so that....she wouldn't talk about something in exchange for them not talking about her?

We don't have all of the pieces yet, but there's obviously something else going on...

[Moulton]

Did they agree to sign this so that....she wouldn't talk about something in exchange for them not talking about her?

Given the number of skeletons that have already come tumbling out of Fibber McGee's Closet, this seems to be a plausible suspicion.