On 6/21/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/21/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
By "WP:V" I assume you mean the verifiability policy. Well in many cases information about relatively private people is quite verifiable, because it appears in medical case studies and in newspapers. A person's name is splashed all over the newspapers because he survives the Virginia Tech massacre. Do we put his name into the encyclopedia?
That would rather depend on the context. We mention that John Hopgood was hurt by an exploding cannon although it appears that history records nothing else about the man.
We don't seem to have an article on the fellow. I see that he's mentioned in the article on the contruction of the Rolle Canal, about 180 years ago.
I think it's good that we recognise that there is an ethical question involved in such an act. It isn't as neutral an act of cataloguing as we sometimes like to pretend.
Cataloguing runs into the "wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information"
We are however meant to be writing a neutral encyclopedia and that means writing it in a neutral manner.
-- geni
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