There are ways to verify someone's identity, without exposing their identity to ...

		ryukoposting on Nov 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin wh... There are ways to verify someone's identity, without exposing their identity to the whole web. I'm a seller on an ecommerce site (not an evil one), and they required me to submit a scanned photo ID and a a piece of mail showing my billing address. My storefront doesn't have my name on it, though. I'm shocked Wikipedia doesn't do this.

Wikimedia did this to aspiring candidates who want to be the "stewards".