--- charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Didn't see anyone mention this article from yesterday,
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1882027,00.html
title, "I'm on Wikipedia, get me out of here", by [[Seth Finkelstein".
Interesting. A couple of comments:
* If a biography subject is genuinely notable, then whether or not he wants an article on himself or not to exist is irrelevant. We would try and communicate that fact tactfully, of course.
* There's lots of disagreement on Wikipedia about what is notable. (Yeah, I'm observant...) My personal definition would exclude a fair bit of current Wikipedia content (so I'm a theoretical deletionist), but I'm happy to live with it (and hence am a de facto inclusionist) because: 1) It does me no harm. I don't have to read articles that I think are non-notable. 2) It does other people no harm. That is, few other people want to read them either, and for the few who do, there's little real-world harm that comes from blantant falsehoods about (say) minor Pokémon characters.
However, in the case of living person bios, "2" may not hold. Malicious persons can write all kinds of false and libellous things that will quite possibly go completely unnoticed until they've been widely mirrored across the Web.
-- Matt
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com
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