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observes high levels of community disapproval over the kind of sock-puppetry that recently took place and over contentious uses of "clean start", but believes that the community has not yet reached agreement about who to disclose alternate accounts to, whether tougher rules should apply to admins,
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describes it as a heavily used page whose wording had become "diffuse and patchy"; he sees this month's efforts as mainly tightening and improving clarity, more directness about the possible serious consequences of being caught operating sock-puppets, and improved guidance in areas such as sock
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believes the tough language, including the "threat to block and publicly link abusive sock accounts", is helpful, and thinks that the past month's changes have made the page more stable.
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points to the "chill" caused by the discovery earlier this month that an administrator was a sock of an admin blocked in 2008 (
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notes the new clearer wording on legitimate uses of multiple accounts, stricter standards for admins, and focus on
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requires re-mapping of existing parameters. The mapping, which will cover almost all instances can be found at
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A is in district B, and district B is in province C, then we could state that A is in province C
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has been updated to better clarify the guidance regarding the inclusion of people in lists.
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making a bold change on 27 October. Related discussion at the village pump concerns the
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has consolidated the sockpuppet and sockpuppeteer templates. The new version of
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was reverted for fear that the use of the word "simple" would cause disputes.
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on defaulting no consensus to delete for biographies of living persons
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if the debate has significant and substantial disagreement
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have been made in the week of 25 October to 2 November:
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The election closes at 23:59 (UTC) on 8 November 2009.
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List of professional sportspeople convicted of crimes
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first proposed a change be made on 10 October, with
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