On 1/29/06, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
I have seen a request form a person who has a entry on the English language Wikipedia to remove his date of birth because he fears identity theft. He is a USA-citizens.
This seems clearly a verifiability issue. If his dob is publicly verifiable, then having it on wikipedia creates no additional risk for him. If not, someone who knows him is a wikipedian and they added it, then it should be removed as not verifiable. And we don't have to bother with the identity theft issue.
Jim