On 9/18/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
While I agree with you that B.P. does not deserve as much privacy as people who are merely annoying (everyone), note that the point of sex offender registries is not to punish gropers by dragging their names through the dirt worldwide, but rather to warn those who might come into contact with the gropers to be careful. So, you really don't need to know about them unless you do live in the same locale.
Couldn't you say the same thing about [[John Couey]], though? I guess you could, and would...
You make a valid point, but in this case the interest in Brian Peppers goes well beyond his locale. And the purpose is not to punish him, or drag his name through the dirt, but to present a neutral account of him.
I also was coming from the point of view during my earlier comments on the matter that it's reasonable for Wikipedia to have any articles on living people at all. Recently I've come to wonder whether that in itself might be a flaw in my earlier reasoning.
Granted, there are arguments