Wikipedia talk:Harassment

Question on social media and outing
If somebody brags on social media in unsavory terms about having made a certain edit on Wikipedia, can I call them out on it on-Wiki? Is that outing?

And if somebody claims on social media to have ‘worked with Wikipedia moderators’ to make those edits? Hyperbolick (talk) 04:31, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * As a generalization, it would be better to deal with it privately (such as by email to an administrator or to ArbCom), than to post about it onsite. It might be OK to post if the social media post uses the exact same account name as the username here, and the social media post contains nothing to link the username to any aspect of real life identity. But it would have to satisfy both of those requirements, not just one or the other, and there would have to be no ambiguities about that. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, this instance doesn't satisfy both, social media username is different. Can imagine a social media troll falsely claiming to be wiki editor for whatever reason. Hyperbolick (talk) 20:29, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Meatpuppetry campaigns off-wiki
If a post off-wiki (say on social media or a forum) encourages readers to engage in an unambiguous vandalism campaign, in what contexts would it be outing to mention that post or link it? Air on White (talk) 06:26, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

"administrators have exactly the same right"
Sorry for the silly question. Why is this sentence centered and in bold? Doesn't it look too emphatic? Gitz (talk) (contribs) 11:03, 11 July 2024 (UTC)


 * The text was added with this formatting by in 2008. It doesn't appear to have been discussed since. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 11:21, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd say that if we want to emphasize this sentence, putting same right as any other user in bold would be enough. The sentence doesn't need to be centred, which makes it look as if it were attached to the template rather than part of the policy. Gitz (talk) (contribs) 17:18, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * (This is in the "Assistance for administrators being harassed" section.) I agree that it should be reformatted. It definitely should not be centered, and I also agree with limiting the bold font in that way. It should just be in regular text, below where that template is shown. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I wonder if it's actually necessary; the fact that it has never been discussed in 16 years makes me suspect not. It's obviously uncontroversial but it mostly just seems to reiterate the second paragraph of the section. --Aquillion (talk) 23:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * It's probably not really necessary to include that part, but there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that admins have the same rights as everyone else. In any case, there seem to be no objections to changing the formatting, so I made that change . --Tryptofish (talk) 22:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)