Dangers of giving real identities

There are just so many horrendous dangers when leading people to give their real identities, around a horde of mentally questionable people. There are no "membership restrictions" in this non-country-club mob of join-at-your-own-risk potential victims. It is equivalent to suggesting, "Everyone has the good-faith option to drop their shields in this gunfight, and trust that no one will actually shoot them, just assume all shots will continue to be near-misses". Of course, there will continue to be people, en:WP:Gaming the system, who will use false "real identities" and when seeking an advantage, will escalate their common ad hominem attacks to perhaps insult someone's occupation, neighborhood, corporation, or family (or dog, etc.) to fill an argument with numerous distracting insults to confuse others, and foment a massive cloud of unbearable hostility into the wide-open arena, possibly scaring people's co-workers, company, family members, and "Toto, too" with hideously memorable, vile, disgusting wiki-puke venom gushing from their obviously twisted, demented, warped, psycho selves. Some people are utter, total raving lunatic, nutjob, wackos. Remember, throughout the ages, people have had their tongues cut out, and perhaps for what might seem to be justified reasons. Just visit a mental asylum, for some weeks, and observe the patients' behavior before they are released back among the general public. Please remember, en:Mental illness and en:psychopaths are real and are a real danger.

Many thanks for your comment. You described a situation that I am very familiar with. Many others may also have strong feelings and opinions about this issue. That is why I asked "Where do you think would be the right place to start a project across projects and languages where the question of editors of all "ages" sharing more about themselves on their user pages could be addressed? I believe that would be the ideal place to centralize the advantages and disadvantages of anonymity vs real identity; identity verifiability; user page improvement and protection." Do you know if such a place already exists? If not, do you know where such place might be? Would you like to be informed if that gets started? Would you be willing to lead that effort, contribute or at least would it be OK with you to quote your post there? You have contributed extensively to the talk about the March 2011 Update and seem to know a lot about Wikimedia projects, having edit on Wikipedia for more than six years. If I didn't comment on what you wrote it was, most likely, because I felt I didn't have anything to add. That's actually the case of your two comments, made this past May 4, which I thoroughly enjoyed reading.

Sincerely,

Virgilio A. P. Machado