Wikipedia:Village pump (policy): Difference between revisions

 

==Undisclosed alternate accounts==

{{imbox|text=For purposes of this discussion, "undisclosed" can be taken to mean "not publicly declared" regardless of whether the account has been disclosed to ArbCom or to a CU, or was discovered without voluntary disclosure. This discussion is aimed at "[[Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry#Legitimate uses|privacy alts]]", secondary accounts created for editing certain topic areas the user would prefer not to edit from their primary account.}}

 

*:{{replyto|My very best wishes}} That line is the entirety of PROJSOCK, but before it can be clarified it needs to be agreed what exactly it is trying to prohibit and why. Based on this discussion the only things that everybody agrees should be prohibited are already prohibited by other parts of this or other policies, meaning that if we restrict it to that it's completely redundant. Nobody has yet been able to explain what "discussions internal to the project" actually means in practice, nor why an editor using a privacy alt should be excluded from all of them. [[User:Thryduulf|Thryduulf]] ([[User talk:Thryduulf|talk]]) 19:36, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

*::I've already made some changes to clarify that disclosing an alt to CUs or ArbCom does not exempt the user form following the rest of the policy, I think we may need a follow-up RFC to discuss PROJSOCK only. It's clearly problematic and needs to either be clarified or simply removed. [[User:Beeblebrox|Beeblebrox]] ([[User talk:Beeblebrox|talk]]) 19:22, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

 

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