On 2/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG
<guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
I don't see a problem with an open and honest
request for factual
correction. We have always encouraged living people to engage with
the community in keeping their biographies factually accurate - just
not by actually editing them. Engage on the talk page, go to the
Office, whatever. And if they point out an error which can be
verified as an error, that's good. And if they dislike the fact that
verifiable but unflattering information is in there, maybe they should
have thought about that before they did whatever they did :-)
The way to get around NOR problems in this case might be to suggest
that we recommend that they create a webpage on their own webspace
that says "I have been characterized in X source [wherever Wikipedia
is getting the info] as having done Y. This is untrue, in reality I
only did Z."
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