Wily D wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Ian Woollard wrote:
If I understand you correctly, you would be (theoretically) fine with me creating a wikipedia page of you and filling it with true information about you, including your social security number, bank account number, telephone number, mothers maiden name, address, entire sexual history, provided all of this can be said to be correct by a notable source and referenced correctly?
The problem with this statement is that the fact that few of these things are known publicly and the inappropriateness of publishing them in Wikipedia are correlated. My telephone number is already on the internet where any idiot with ten seconds to spare can find it (http://www.411.ca) which also tells you my street address. The rest of these things simply aren't available, which is reflective of the fact that publishing them is seen as inappropriate -
Most of these things on Ian's list are ones that we wouldn't include anyways. The mother's maiden name may be biographically relevant, and in exceptional cases the sexual history, but we can probably achieve near unanimity about keeping the rest out. That doesn't translate into some kind of blanket policy to withhold anything that the subject wants kept out.
Ec