User:Ego Hunter

My goal is to enforce Wikipedia notability policy, regardless of feathers ruffled.

For those of you who inquired who I am: this is none of your business - learn to respect others privacy and assume some good faith, will you? But tl;dr:

Yes, I am a sock of a more experienced editor. A legit one, per WP:SOCK: ''Alternative accounts have legitimate uses. For example, long-term contributors using their real names may wish to use a pseudonymous account for contributions with which they do not want their real name to be associated, or long-term users might create a new account to experience how the community functions for new users. These accounts are not sockpuppets. If you use an alternative account, it is your responsibility to ensure that you do not violate this policy. Valid reasons include: Privacy: A person editing an article which is highly controversial within his/her family, social or professional circle, and whose Wikipedia identity is known within that circle, or traceable to their real-world identity, may wish to use an alternative account to avoid real-world consequences from their editing or other Wikipedia actions in that area.'' As an otherwise active editor in good standing, one who has met other Wikipedians in person, I do not wish to "make enemies" - yet I felt (and feel) that we need to review the notability of certain individuals related to this project, and who at the same time wield significant influence even in our in-theory-meritocratic-all-are-equal community. I chose to do so anonymously, as with all the good faith in the world, one can never be sure how some otherwise decent and respected people make take somebody taking an aim at their egos. I am old enough and familiar enough with volunteers not to expect them to be prefect paragons of virtue, hence I have chosen to engage in this area under a new account.

Or to put it bluntly: I am afraid that if I submitted certain AfDs under my better-known username, I would suffer repercussions, from frowning and snubbing at Wikipedians / Wikimedians gatherings, to bad faithed remarks by subjects and their colleagues on this project. And since I nominated some Wikimedia Foundation biographies for AfD, and I have some professional ties with WMF, my professional career could be affected, to. So, if anyone thinks I am a bad faithed sock and tries to pry into my real identify, I think the real bad faith is on your end - as in "you want to find out who I am so that you could hurt me by harassing me on Wikipedia or sabotaging my professional career withing the Wikipedia community."