On 7/17/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
That said, I do think there is a personal privacy consideration. I don't think Wikipedia should have articles about just anyone. In the case of Peppers I think the privacy argument is overcome because he voluntarily committed an act which put himself into the public spotlight.
Casting all criminals as "people who voluntarily commited acts which put themselves into the public spotlight" is not the way we want to be going. We should primarily care about what makes the encyclopaedia better, but in doing as little harm as possible in the process.
OT: I was irked today when I went to look up OMFGWTFBBQ in Wikipedia, only to find a redirect to [[Internet slang]], which didn't actually mention it. Nor did [[List of internet slang]]. In fact there *was* a useful definition once upon a time, but it got deleted by someone zealously enforcing WP:NOT. What can I say - the encyclopaedia let me down on this one.
Steve