On 9/24/08, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <newyorkbrad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is not true in the least. There are clear
ethical issues arising from
the fact that a Wikipedia article on a living person will generally become
one of the highest (if not the very highest) search-engine result for that
person's name. Writing a Wikipedia article including derogatory information
about someone is not the same thing as writing a comment on some other
random website.
No.
If I refuse to write derogatory information about you at all, I am ethical.
If I write or condone derogatory information about you elsewhere on
the internet, but refuse to post it or discuss it on Wikipedia on the
basis of ethics (basing my ethics on estimated google juice), I am a
hypocrite of the worst kind.
—C.W.