On 25/12/2007, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, it's the only thing that might force us to catalog the appalling events of this person's life in an encyclopedia. We're not Facebook.
What has facebook got to do with anything.
Being in Wikipedia can *hurt*, it can *kill*.
So can many things.
We need to be sure that we really need to interfere with somebody's life that much.
"that much" umm compared to the extent the US authorities appear to be prepared to interfere nothing wikipedia could do is very significant.
This applies to *every single living person* documented by Wikipedia, not just this former employee. It's why we have a "Biographies of living persons" (BLP) policy. We owe a duty to humanity, and specifically to our subjecs, not to make things worse.
Worse is a subjective judgment and in any case is impossible to certain of with sub infinite data sets (see chaos theory).
We're here to nmake things BETTER. Did you forget that?
No we are here to build an encyclopedia.