[Wikipedia-l] Where ends the responsibility of Wikipedia? (personal information of people)

Sam Korn smoddy at gmail.com
Sun Jan 29 12:22:46 UTC 2006


On 1/29/06, Walter Vermeir <walter at 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.

If there is evidence to confirm it, then Wikipedia is not going to add
to his problems.  If there is no evidence, it should be removed
anyway.  I don't see why this is any different to any other request of
the remove-my-personal-information-because-I-say-so type.

--
Sam



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