Talk:Brian Charrington

message: He's benn arrested by Spanish Police. Xic667 (talk) 08:46, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  detained yesterday 

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message: What was his Wikipedia username? Was it on enwiki eswiki .. ? The Times article is paywalled. -- GreenC 21:07, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a good article. Apparently he edited this very article. I don't see any previous discussion or COI notice so presumably the edits are still in the history. He was arrested in 2013 so edits before then are suspect. There are a series of IP edits from Spain that wrote most of the article between 2008 and 2010 though that doesn't mean it was him. Comments? At the very least we have a probable COI problem with the article. -- GreenC 21:16, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure I've seen this discussed elsewhere - very likely at WP:COIN.  I'd even thought I'd edited the article myself - but nothing is in the history.  The subject's edit would likely have to be by an IP for it to help the police track him down. Smallbones(smalltalk) 05:41, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

text: There's a 2013 IP edit that geolocates to Spain.  A lot of earlier IP edit geolocate to the UK. Smallbones(smalltalk) 05:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The initial edit, from Cornwall, created 95% of the article. The next edit a few weeks later, from Spain, tried to blank the article. A suspicious edit from Spain in 2011  . -- GreenC 06:35, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Careful, I guess technically "Posting another editor's personal information is harassment, unless that person has voluntarily posted his or her own information, or links to such information, on Wikipedia." still applies. BTW, the Times have some sort of "register with an e-mail and you can read a few articles/month" thing. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:30, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

text: Also, serious WP:BLP problems in this article. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: We are not posting anything that isn't public knowledge available on Wikipedia and public news sources. IPs have a Wikipedia-enabled geolocate feature that says where they are from. If there is a problem with that, take it up with Wikipedia for providing this data. This article has a lot of problems: COI, BLP, unsourced and generally unreliable given the circumstances. For example I wouldn't be surprised if the initial Cornwall creation was a police sting to entrap the suspect to edit his own article to geolocate him (that is pure conjecture but the fact police are making a big deal of the Wikipedia capture sounds a little like bragging to me). Overall I find the article highly suspicious and unreliable and since it's mostly unsourced it could be WP:TNT fairly easily. -- GreenC 15:40, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia username?