There are two issues here: someone’s accountability for their alleged actions, regardless of their other unrelated actions or ideas, and referencing their unrelated work. If you think the former needs to be dealt with but hasn’t been, then you can initiate the process, if you are so inclined, or contact relevant LW admins to do so to let them evaluate whether it is a good idea. If you are focused on a topic and want to reference their work unrelated to the alleged actions, it seems like this is a right thing to do, or at least better than suppressing the knowledge of their contribution.
Oh, asking admins directly is probably a thing to do. I think I didn’t just do that because...
So I don’t want to sound like I’m demanding they do anything. And if I’m not demanding that, I’m kinda just asking them the same question I’m asking here, so why not just ask here? But there’s an obvious answer to that, which is that I can give them details and they might be able to tell me things I don’t know.
I think also partly because “easier to ask forgiveness than permission”, but I don’t particularly endorse that or expect them to forbid anything. (I suppose “we’d prefer you don’t” is plausible, and then if I do the thing anyway I’d feel obliged to mention that they said that, but that’s pretty far from forbidding.)
There are two issues here: someone’s accountability for their alleged actions, regardless of their other unrelated actions or ideas, and referencing their unrelated work. If you think the former needs to be dealt with but hasn’t been, then you can initiate the process, if you are so inclined, or contact relevant LW admins to do so to let them evaluate whether it is a good idea. If you are focused on a topic and want to reference their work unrelated to the alleged actions, it seems like this is a right thing to do, or at least better than suppressing the knowledge of their contribution.
Oh, asking admins directly is probably a thing to do. I think I didn’t just do that because...
So I don’t want to sound like I’m demanding they do anything. And if I’m not demanding that, I’m kinda just asking them the same question I’m asking here, so why not just ask here? But there’s an obvious answer to that, which is that I can give them details and they might be able to tell me things I don’t know.
I think also partly because “easier to ask forgiveness than permission”, but I don’t particularly endorse that or expect them to forbid anything. (I suppose “we’d prefer you don’t” is plausible, and then if I do the thing anyway I’d feel obliged to mention that they said that, but that’s pretty far from forbidding.)
So I guess I’ll contact them in the morning.