Dear Wikipedia Options

[Blu Aardvark]

Recently, some pointed accusations have been directed at this board. Some users are upset about the recent departure of Katefan0 (and rightfully so - she was an excellent admin), and are blaming Wikipedia Review for this.

First of all, allow me to make clear that Wikipedia Review did NOT out Katefan0. Daniel Brandt outted Katefan0 on his hivemind page, and on Wikipedia, before anything was posted about it here. I wasn't even aware of the conflict until Katefan0 had already left the project. Why? Because I have something called a "real life", and I wasn't even at my computer during the time the situation developed.

Now, some Wikipedians are arguing that, because we didn't do something about Brandt's behaviour, we have aided and abeted in the stalking of a Wikipedian. Allow me to sum this up in one phrase - bullshit. Brandt located and identified Katefan0 without our assistance. He outted her without our assistance, both on Wikipedia, his private website, and by email contact with the "victim". I do not know how Brandt did so, nor is it any concern of mine.

This should be common sense to you trolls (Yes Ambi, I'm talking to you), but I'll spell it out for you. We do not assume responsibility on this forum for the actions and opinions held by our members. The opinions expressed by our members do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the staff and moderators of Wikipedia Review.

Now, some of you may ask - what action is being taken against Brandt for disclosing information about an admin? The answer is simple - none whatsoever. I regret that a fine, nuetral contributor to Wikipedia has left the project due to a conflict with Brandt, but that has nothing to do with this board. If you have an issue with Brandt, take it up with him.

On a different note, I would like to thank Linuxbeak for his nuetral attempt to reach a compromise between myself and Wikipedia. Sadly, I do not think that Wikipedia is willing to accept such compromise, as I can clearly see your fine admin Cyde libelling me on WP:ANI, and admins I have never interacted with jumping into the fray at the apparent behest of such trolls.

Oh, and Cyde? By Godwin's law, you lose.

[blissyu2]

If there is something wrong with what Daniel Brandt did, it was exposing that Katefan0 was a professional journalist working for Congress, and stating her name. In retrospect, we probably should have wiped her name from here, since we have a policy not to allow someone's real life name to be allowed on the board. I don't have access to be able to do this, and I actually didn't notice anyway, and I presume that nobody else really noticed it either. Daniel Brandt is free to do this on his own board if he wants, but probably not on here.

But anyway of course the argument is that if you are going to lose your job for editing Wikipedia, perhaps you shouldn't be editing Wikipedia? And certainly not to the level where you get to be administrator?

Katefan0 wasn't actually hurt. She chose to quit over it. So I am not so sure that we should take the blame over this. However, I would urge those that do have the power, to wipe her real name from all posts, to be replaced by ***. Since Daniel Brandt likely either didn't know that policy of ours, or else had forgotten it, it is probably not appropriate to warn him.

Naturally, people who state their real life name on Wikipedia, or else are public figures, are exceptions to this rule.