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# I think there should be a longer description as to what meatpuppetry is. [[Wikipedia:WP:MTPPT|Wikipedia]] has its own section regarding meatpuppetry and also mentions that consensus is determined by discussion and valid arguments, not by votes; thus, meatpuppetry is useless in altering consensus.
—[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 02:37, December 28, 2016 (UTC)
:Responding specifically to your points...
::1. That's a fair point, and I will probably edit the draft to reflect that. The truth is, the bot portion of the MAP is purposefully vague because the Bot Policy is still up in the air and I didn't want to write in something that blatantly contradicts any possible policy that may be rolling out in the near future.
::2. When I wrote the draft, I wanted to keep the policy as close as practical to currently-accepted standards and practices. Alternate accounts have not really come up frequently on The Sims Wiki so it's hard to include a list of valid multiple uses without it seeming like such a list is artificially exclusive. Ultimately I'd seek to set the policy so that multiple accounts used in good faith are not automatically assumed to be bad and treated hostilely. This might mean including a "catch-all" line, to the tune of something like "Alternate accounts for other purposes that are used in good faith may be allowed with administrative approval." But that's depending on whether we want direct administrative oversight over all multiple account usages regardless of purpose. The reason I am leaning towards that is because that has been the prevailing method of admins on TSW; multiple accounts here in practice need approval, whereas on Wikipedia they may be created without necessarily getting admin oversight.
::3. The concept of meatpuppetry isn't one that's often brought up here on the wiki, so I felt that including it as an aside in the policy language was good enough.
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