1, Did we publish contact information in this instance? The media may have done so, but I don't think we did. Of course we would generally remove it. I do when i see it. 2. When have we published an article with identifiable information about a victim or stalking?--or published one at all? The recent concerns have been much more indirect, 3. We are careful about minors. And as someone pointed out, she's over 18. She's a prominent amateur athlete. We'd be doing wrong if we didn't cover it. I am ashamed of working with people who want to censor it. They aren't devoted to building an honest encyclopedia.
DGG
On 6/5/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/5/07, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org wrote:
I think this incident can be addressed constructively in part by fleshing out the privacy provisions of BLP. Right now Wikipedia has a more elaborate privacy policy for Wikipedia editors than it does for people who happen to be the topic of articles. BLP mostly seems to focus on neutrality, verifiability and no original research. Some additional privacy clauses might include:
(1) No publishing of personal contact information such as address or a phone number if there is any objection by the person profiled.
Why would an encyclopaedia be doing this anyway? I routinely remove such information from articles, regardless of whether they are about living people. Encyclopaedias are not directories or the Yellow Pages.
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