Wikipedia talk:Personal security practices

message: Guidelines are supposed to be actionable.  Is this actionable?  I think it might better off as a simple project space page and not a guideline or policy.  --Iamunknown 19:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The "action" would be in reporting items of personally identifiable information through an email to an Admin or WP:OVERSIGHT. As a guideline, it is mainly intended for noobs and people unfamiliar with how personal security functions operate on WP... rather than for people who already know what to do in such situations. It is intended to be "actionable" in a prescriptive, rather than a proscriptive sense. (WP:Harassment already covers the proscriptive end adequately.) Best,—ACADEMY LEADER FOCUS! 22:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ooo, excellent distinction, and I think well put.  I thought of that (but not as clearly), but then thought how most of our guidelines are actionable in a proscriptive sense.  There is certainly room for prescriptive guidelines.  --Iamunknown 22:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: I wouldn't be opposed... I think the placename "Security" sounds like an appropriate umbrella term of which the content on both pages are specific elements. However, keeping the content areas seperate would allow for more respective specialization... Also, this page was intended as a guideline and not as an enforcable "policy" per se... it is mainly a deriative adaptation of elements of the Wikimedia foundation's privacy policy and as such was not intended to supercede the WF's policy, only adapt it more specifically for personal security conventions and dynamics on en.wiki. —ACADEMY LEADER FOCUS! 01:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This stuff largely got moved out of WP:SECURITY out of a desire of some contributors for WP:SECURITY to become a policy page.  I don't favor such policy proliferation but let's keep the pages separate while we see what happens over there. 75.62.6.237 05:07, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, before the debate with WP:PASSWORD started I openly scraped the WF's privacy policy here: , mainly out of motivations concerning this conversation here Wikipedia_talk:No_personal_attacks#Part_two. Sidaway since proposed merging the texts, but the only addition so far from there has been "Password security tips" , which I think is fine so far as this page goes.—ACADEMY LEADER FOCUS! 06:14, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The only thing WP:SECURITY got from WP:PARANOIA is the cute redirect:—ACADEMY LEADER FOCUS! 06:19, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: Merging with [[WP:SECURITY]]

message: I appreciate the neutrality of the essay and the distinction between its information and that of guidelines. However, if it is permitted, it would be helpful to hear some scenarios or opinions about using pseudonyms for security purposes. My contributions are quite modest and haphazard. I don't see how the things I do as an editor could be used against me out in the world, nor can I imagine how I might reveal personal information or compromise my online security. I use pseudonyms when I don't want my activity to be public. I use my real name when I do something publicly (to me, Wikipedia is a public, democratic space) or because I want credit for my contributions. Am I being naive? I'm pretty new around here, so thank you for educating me! CharlesTStokes (talk) 01:38, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinions?