User talk:TeleComNasSprVen/Shared accounts

Not framed well. Better to focus on benefit to English Wikipedia, rather than framing it as a "favor" for a specific Swiss National Library. Should go like:

1. Briefly mention Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) single unified login (SUL) initiative
2. Discuss how WMF does not have a policy against shared accounts
3. Relay the German Wikipedia experience -- how other non-profit organizations with WMF like missions to share knowledge can benefit English Wikipedia, if we let them
4. Address how such accounts will be vetted:
   1. How we will know the operators actually represent the institution they claim to?
   2. How will such accounts be identified so that other editors know they are violations of username policy? NE Ent 12:24, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

I agree. At the moment it reads almost like a request to rerun the AN discussion about a specific exemption for SNL. Use that case as an introduction to the suggestion of a more general exception to WP:NOSHARE. You need to be specific about what you are proposing: it could be any of:

1. Any group of people can share an account - completely abandon NOSHARE
2. Allow groups with a corporate identity, including commercial companies
3. Exclude commercial companies, but allow charities, "good causes", clubs, pressure groups, political parties
4. Allow only GLAMs, i.e. organizations whose mission, like ours, is making knowledge freely available

In my opinion, only #4 would stand a snowflake's chance of getting agreement. JohnCD (talk) 22:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)