On 4/15/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/15/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
And yes, I mean in articles too. There's no reason for personal information like phone numbers and street addresses to be included anywhere on Wikipedia (unless someone chooses to put them there themselves, and then only while they want it there).
Whether a person adds material about themselves personally is irrelevant to whether it should be there. We never distinguish between *who* added the material - only whether it meets our policies.
As a general rule, I don't think we include phone numbers of any individuals or even organisations. For a start, they're liable to change. And then, who are they useful to? People overseas? I guess there are exceptions like particularly famous phone numbers, but in general we don't need or want them.
I think he was talking about user pages. If a Wikipedian wants to put their phone number on their user page, to help people contact them, should we stop them?
Anthony