I see, I was reading the statement to imply that he/she was somehow using Wikimedia projects as a method of acquiring personally identifiable information, not as a distribution method.
-Dan On Jun 3, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjes...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 3, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Scott MacDonald wrote: >> >>> Imagine if poetlister now engages in identity theft and deception at >>> Wikiversity. >> >> How precisely does one engage in identity theft in a project that does not >> require the submission of identifying information? > > > By voluntarily submitting stolen information, of course. The fact that > Wikipedia (or Wikiversity) does not require that I provide my real name to > participate would not make it any more acceptable if I were to claim that I > was Dan Rosenthal and put pictures of you on my user page to prove it. > > (You'd be correct if the project actually prohibited the submission > of identifying information, rather than merely not requiring it; but that's > not the case here.) > > Kirill > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
