On 1/29/06, Walter Vermeir <walter(a)wikipedia.be> wrote:
I have seen a request form a person who has a entry on the English
language Wikipedia to remove his date of birth because he fears identity
theft. He is a USA-citizens.
This seems clearly a verifiability issue. If his dob is publicly verifiable,
then having it on wikipedia creates no additional risk for him. If not,
someone who knows him is a wikipedian and they added it, then it should be
removed as not verifiable. And we don't have to bother with the identity
theft issue.
Jim