2009/2/23 WJhonson@aol.com:
I disagree. Our obligation should be to report what is reported. Not to obscure merely for the sake of some rather ill-defined notion of "privacy" or some such thing.
I rather thought it was some notion of "editorial common sense", but I understand this seems to be unfashionable in some circles these days.
(Why are we having this discussion for the thousandth time, anyway? It's not desperately germane to the issue of how to define stubs...)