On 20 Apr 2007 at 20:42:24 -0600, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:

Would blocking Google and the other major search engines from spidering Wikipedia satisfy you? I'd rather see that tried before implementing some sort of blanket ban on biographical articles.

That seems like a version of the infamous Brandtian argument that free speech should only be permitted if not *too* many people actually get to hear you; it's OK to be free in what you put in a website, but you'd better not let the search engines index it too well so that you get a big audience for what you say.