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

Phil Boswell phil.boswell at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 15:46:49 UTC 2006


"Pawe³ Dembowski" <fallout at lexx.eu.org> wrote in 
message news:1172514620.20060129231510 at lexx.eu.org...
> > 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.
> This person's birthdate is also available at IMDb, actually...

Then he's out of luck, given the glacial pace of their editing mechanisms...
-- 
Phil
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