On 9/24/08, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
This is not true in the least. There are clear ethical issues arising from the fact that a Wikipedia article on a living person will generally become one of the highest (if not the very highest) search-engine result for that person's name. Writing a Wikipedia article including derogatory information about someone is not the same thing as writing a comment on some other random website.
No.
If I refuse to write derogatory information about you at all, I am ethical.
If I write or condone derogatory information about you elsewhere on the internet, but refuse to post it or discuss it on Wikipedia on the basis of ethics (basing my ethics on estimated google juice), I am a hypocrite of the worst kind.
—C.W.