Ken Arromdee wrote:
The same argument can be made about any issue which
just involves privacy and
not even danger to lives. If you search for Brian Peppers on the Internet,
you can still find all the information you want; that's not an excuse for
Wikipedia to have the article.
But then neither is it an excuse for not having such an article.
Someone else who is thinking of putting the
information up can easily think
"even if I didn't put it up, Wikipedia would have the top search ranking".
You end up with everyone passing the responsibility to everyone else to stop it
first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
Search ranking should not be a factor in deciding whether to have an
article. Higher search ranking will develop after an article is
written. The argument from diffusion of responsibility could more easily
be about the responsibility for failure to add the material. Diffusion
of responsibility is more about situations where harm is clearly being
done, as with someone being beaten-up. In our case the harm is
ambiguous at best.
Ec