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==="Name and shame" pages===

On Wikipedia, there are publicly-visible "name and shame" pages such as "Sockpuppet investigation" casepages (SPI) and Long-term abuse pages (LTA) whose ostensible aims are for assisting anti-vandalism purposes.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse</ref> Pages in the latter category often contain personally-identifiable attributes of users who're branded as "long term abusers" (LTA) for supposedly engaging in disruptions against the Wikipedia over a long period, including IP addresses, full legal names. In at least one case where a user accused of being an LTA is an apparent juvenile, no special measures to consider their privacy rights (i.e. hiding LTA pages to only audiences with Wikipedia accounts) are apparently observed. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse/Archive_6#Should_we_really_be_including_personal_information_in_LTA_reports?</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bambifan101</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Tirgil34</ref> Such practices may risk violating GDPR as there's also a case where scientific researchers based in Czech Republic and Slovakia were doxxed that way due to accusations that they had engaged in self-promoting edits on Wikipedia. At a glance, little to no fact-checking and quality checking processes were observed in the LTA page creation process, which may mean that some or all accusations in some if not all of LTA pages may be inaccurate and could therefore constitute defamation/libel.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Europeanhematology</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/DEATH_TO_COVID</ref>

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