On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:25:56 -0700 (MST), "Fred Bauder" fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
I think the biggest problems might involve users who have been trashed for one reason or another, justified or not.
Fred
My understanding is that the legislation is not so much about users (which we can handle anyway), but about notable persons which have some information about them leaked into media and they want toi remove this information. I remember when I was still an admin in Russian Wikipedia, I had a long conversation with an admin of a website of a rock star, who wanted to change the birth year in the article on the person (basically, making her five years younger) even though we had sources claiming the opposite. This did not happen, since I accidentally knew I was younger than the star, and the proposed year would make her younger than me, but I think the legislation in this case would require to have the information on the birth year deleted from all sources (and, obciously, also from our articles). I would like to hear a legal opinion though.
Cheers Yaroslav