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Denis Cavanagh
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« on: February 09, 2008, 11:54:12 AM »
What is to stop someone from cheating basically and claiming to be such a person with a made up name. For example, someone could claim to be 'Brad O'Neill', a 25 year old graduate with a BA in Geography who currently works with the city council... etc. while in reality is sixteen year old troll who run out of things to do in Wikipedia?
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2008, 11:56:04 AM »
Try it, find out!
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2008, 12:56:44 PM »
Quote from: Denis Cavanagh on February 09, 2008, 11:54:12 AM
What is to stop someone from cheating basically and claiming to be such a person with a made up name. For example, someone could claim to be 'Brad O'Neill', a 25 year old graduate with a BA in Geography who currently works with the city council... etc. while in reality is sixteen year old troll who run out of things to do in Wikipedia?

In that case, we'd probably expect to see his .gov email address.
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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2008, 01:06:56 PM »
AS with all things like this, it is a matter of probablities and proxy measures. Email address is one good indicator. For editors, there should be a wide range of proxy measures available to check authenticity.
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Zachary Pruckowski
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2008, 10:57:29 PM »
We're not going to catch everyone.  We just need to make it hard enough that we can catch most trouble makers, and easy enough that honest people will be willing to comply.
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