User:Privatemusings/prvaiteemail

Hi Guy,

I would ask you to treat the following with the utmost discretion, I'd feel it to be a violation for this to be discussed with anyone (particularly other wiki editors) except those named below, and at the moment I really am trying to do the right thing.

what follows is an email I sent El_C when he or she made a similar request to find out a little more about where I'm coming from;

Just off the bat, my name is Peter - I don't think we've met before, but I have had some interactions with Geogre and Bishonen (whom i respect enormously) and have noticed you at their talk pages, as well as at various places throughout the wiki. Please treat the following information confidentially, but feel free to forward / discuss any aspects with Bishonen or Geogre privately if you'd like (they are aware of my editing history up to, but not including the 'Privatemusings' account, which I'm happy for you to discuss with them)

Here's the rundown on my editing history at wiki with the reasons behind it;

First account : Petesmiles

A nickname I've used for many years, so the name I used when i signed up an account in mid 2005. This account is fairly easily traceable to my real name.

I became interested in the wiki political world through the essjay incident, and was concerned enough about his behaviour to try and urge him to attend to the matter before it exploded - because of the likely heat of the situation, i created my second account : 'Purples' (the name of a long standing stuffed companion of mine, if that's not too much information!).

I let Bishonen, Georgre, and Paul August know that Purples was also Petesmiles, and asked for their discretion because of the ease of connection between Petesmiles and my identity.

Purples was therefore a role account at that point, but I eventually decided to retire Petesmiles all together a couple of months ago, and continue my wiki gnomish activity as Purples (it was nice to meet FloNight, another current Arb. whilst editing the Jonathan King article).

Purples having become my sole article account, I decided when getting more involved in the external link issues ('badsites' etc.) to create a sock, Privatemusings, for the reasons stated on the PM user page.

Before creating this role account, I had posted one small comment on the arb. case here; http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration&diff=prev&oldid=156004371

I hope you'll agree that that post doesn't represent a substantial muddying of the waters......

So that's me in a nutshell - do feel free to get in touch for any reason, privately if referring to any specific information, or on-wiki would be preferred. Bishonen was kind enough to drop this note as a reference in the past, which really helped keep the discussion on the rails - but I'm not sure that any such step is required at the mo......

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:No_personal_attacks&diff=prev&oldid=134201049#Edit_warring

best,

Pete.