QUOTE(Alison @ Wed 28th November 2007, 5:30pm)
I wanted support and advice
1) Don't post anything to the internet under a female name.
2) Don't post under your own name, even a first name.
3) Don't post where you live.
4) Don't post what you do for a living.
5) Don't post anything that is unique to you only.
6) Don't edit Wikipedia with an IP that is tied to an ISP that you pay for. Any anonymous loose cannon with CU access can spread your IP and browser information to anyone that damn well please.
Eventually you will piss someone off, and this will occur.
and on a theme orginially on my WP user page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=134010377== Generic Tips For Those Who Supposedly Want to Remain Anonymous But Continue to Edit Wikipedia ==
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1. Don't post on Wikipedia for years with your real name, then complain later when you change your account alias to a pseudonym that your privacy is being compromised. Don't post your real name in the first place or start a new account if you had.
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2. Don't edit articles of former employers, former co-workers, and former disasters that took the lives of your loved ones, much of which is done with incredible detail but no sources cited, in a pattern that any google search could easily give up your anonymous-ness. When this happens, stop editing under the account and start another one, and stop whining about it. Supposedly you are doing this for free, so get over it and don't make the same mistakes next time if privacy is really your concern and not a passive-agressive method to entrap your wikienemies. If I felt my life was in danger in any way over activities that I performed under a pseudonym and for no compensation, I would change that pseudonym and stop anyone's ability to supposedly endanger my privacy while still being able to volunteer for the anonymous hobby I spend so much time doing.
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3. Don't create your own BLP article under a pseudonym.
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4. Don't edit articles on the same obscure vacation spots, obscure psyschiatric disorders, and archrivals as the subject of #3 has in real life, on usenet postings, and on blogs, all in living google search color, and then claim that 2 of the other pseudonyms that helped you on you wikipedia articles are just posting from the same IP address you do because they're visiting relatives. If this happens, routinely have these visting relative psuedonyms randomly edit other articles on wikipedia so that there simulatenous disppearance isn't so obvious.
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5. Always remember to login before editing obscure articles that only your pseudonym has edited. Otherwise that one edit showing a non-logged in IP really sticks out like sore thumb in giving people information about who's computers you are posting from. Espcially when those computers are located at organizations that are being sued by the subjects of some of the articles that your logged in account edits.
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Just some tips to help ensure that wikipedians might protect their own privacy, their freedom of speech, any hidden conflicts of interest, and their right to edit anonymously can be upheld. Long live wikipedia! [[User:Piperdown|Piperdown]] 04:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
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