These policy pages seem to imply otherwise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Presump... "Presumption in favor of privacy"
Wikipedia articles that present material about living people can affect their subjects' lives. Wikipedia editors who deal with these articles have a responsibility to consider the legal and ethical implications of their actions when doing so. It is not Wikipedia's purpose to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives. Biographies of living persons must be written conservatively, with regard for the subject's privacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:DEL#Deletion_discussion
"Discussions on relatively unknown, non-public figures, where the subject has requested deletion and there is no rough consensus may be closed as delete."
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 2:40 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/4 Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com:
Hi all, in two years of looking for solutions to the BLP issues have
finally
stumbled upon an idea that hasn't been raised before. Basically it's
this:
*Suppose we noindexed biographies of living persons, upon the subject's request.* This would require developer assistance, and require a bit of structure to make sure the ability doesn't get misused. An initial draft proposal is at my blog. Am interested in thoughts and suggestions.
http://durova.blogspot.com/2009/06/biographies-of-living-persons-ingenius.ht...
Best regards, Durova
Been suggested before. Answer is either:
No what search engines do with wikipedia content is none of our business.
No the subjects of articles have no right to determine wikipedia behavior
Of course it could also be argued that effectively making a public record of people who are sensitive about their bios it's exactly an improvement on the current situation.
-- geni
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