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I just put this on Katefan0's Talk page:

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I request that you identify yourself on your user page as (name redacted), employed as a reporter by Congressional Quarterly and accredited through them by the Senate Press Gallery. I also request that you provide a current photo on your user page. I believe that your failure to identify yourself violates the spirit of journalistic ethics. Administrators should not be anonymous on Wikipedia in light of their power to shape content. --Daniel Brandt

Half an hour later: My comment is gone, no trace in history, page is protected. Golly, if I can't send her a message this way, should I send it to her editor at Congressional Quarterly? What do you think I should do?
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2005-02-28: Identifies herself by name on aqlogic.com (a wiki, talk page of a User:Grouse)

2005-03-23: Identifies herself as a reporter in Washington DC

2003-11-05: In post 1416, identifies herself as a Congressional reporter

2006-05-25: A search for her last name on the Congressional gallery list reveals that she uses "Kathryn" and not "Kathy," and works for CQ. This is a breakthrough, because there is another political reporter by the same name in the Washington area who writes for the LaRouche organization. But that one has been doing it since at least the mid-1990s. From Katefan0's user page, it is clear that she graduated from journalism school in 2001 in Texas, so she's not the LaRouche reporter.

2006-05-25: Searching back for "Daily Texan" and her full name in quotes it's clear that Kathryn is her full first name.

2006-05-25: The Congressional Quarterly staff page shows that she is still there as a reporter.

2006-05-26: From her latest sign-off: "But this latest attempt to compromise my privacy, combined with a threat to try to somehow have my livelihood taken from me, caps off a long two months of reevaluating whether volunteering here is worth it."

Excuse me, I wasn't the one who compromised your privacy. You were, by leaving a trail of cookie crumbs all across the web. And that was after you stuck your hand in the cookie jar, which you shouldn't have done in the first place as a professional journalist. I merely pointed out what every journalist already knows, and spent a couple of hours surfing the web.

Isn't that what journalism is about -- connecting the dots that others don't have the time or energy to connect?
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Daniel Brandt   Professional journalist is an anonymous admin  
Pat Kennys evil twin   Send away. :) I didn't know they could remove...  
sgrayban   Daniel Brandt you never cease to amaze me. How you...  
Donny   Yup -- they can delete the page and restore just t...  
sgrayban   It's a little harder than that, they have to a...  
Daniel Brandt   This one could get interesting. If her bosses at C...  
sgrayban   And lets not forget that this shows a direct tie b...  
Daniel Brandt   Looks like she's already folded up her Wikiped...  
sgrayban   What strikes me as odd is this.......... If someo...  
Skyring   What strikes me as odd is this.......... If someo...  
sgrayban   That's what I was thinking....... If there was...  
amorrow   That's what I was thinking....... If there wa...  
Rufus   I took a little look through some of Katefan's...  
sgrayban   I took a little look through some of Katefan's...  
Herschelkrustofsky   I took a little look through some of Katefan...  
Rufus   I assume the cases you're talking about are t...  
Skyring   Katefan evidently felt there was some impropriety,...  
Herschelkrustofsky   You know me: just trying to keep track of the gi...  
sgrayban   That's why I believe she broke/violated some e...  
Daniel Brandt   This is a very serious situation for a Washington ...  
Lir   Her position at Wikipedia was an obvious conflict...  
nobs   On Wikipedia, she was making edits on articles a...  
Alkivar   She didnt exactly hide the fact she was a journali...  
sgrayban   [b]2006-05-26: From her latest sign-off: "Bu...  
everyking   I find this worrying. Was Katefan a controversial ...  
sgrayban   I find this worrying. Was Katefan a controversial...  
Avillia   First off she broke federal guildelines when she e...  
Skyring   I find this worrying. Was Katefan a controversial ...  
Mr.Treason II   I have a new way to solve this problem. This invol...  
Milton Roe   I have a new way to solve this problem. This invo...  
Donny   I find this worrying. Was Katefan a controversial...  
everyking   I find this worrying. Was Katefan a controversia...  
Skyring   I don't know the ins and outs of this case, an...  
sgrayban   [quote name='Donny' post='7996' date='Fri 26th Ma...  
Skyring   Ohhhhh a nice wiki-reversal tatic...... Our ethic...  
Donny   Identifying yourself as a journalist to an interv...  
Donny   Wikipedia is just a website. Here's the old ...  
Daniel Brandt   All anonymous admins are fair game. An anonymous a...  
Skyring   All anonymous admins are fair game. An anonymous a...  
everyking   All anonymous admins are fair game. An anonymous ...  
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Milton Roe   All anonymous admins are fair game. An anonymous...  
The Adversary   Blissy? More likely, this joker (or some copy-cat...  
sgrayban   And again both Skyring and everyking demand to thi...  
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sgrayban   [quote name='sgrayban' post='7985' date='Fri 26th...  
Skyring   Do you know for a fact she didn't edit and add...  
sgrayban   [quote name='sgrayban' post='7989' date='Fri 26th...  
Pat Kennys evil twin   Do we have enough on her to file a complaint with ...  
kotepho   I don't know who said it, but no, they did not...  
sgrayban   Indeed....  
sgrayban   *sigh* how sad the blinders of logic are used here...  
sgrayban   Skyring need's to take some ethic classes or a...  
Skyring   If skyring is a admin on Wikipedia you are now mak...  
sgrayban   Let me pose another ethical question. I work on t...  
Skyring   But your arguement still does not mean anything he...  
sgrayban   *sigh* I give up.... Your way to dense and close m...  
guy   One thing's for sure - this has made Daniel Br...  
sgrayban   Heh I past you in number of posts now :) This pos...  
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danielshays   I just put this on Katefan0's Talk page: Ha...  
sgrayban   Maggie please don't...... We are in the proces...  
Selina   Well, not us, but that would be unnecessary nastin...  
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