[WikiEN-l] WP:LIVING and "sensitivity" again

geni geniice at gmail.com
Wed Aug 30 19:55:52 UTC 2006


On 8/30/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed.  However, if the birthdate is already public information, I
> see no point in censoring Wikipedia about it.  Verifiability works
> quite well in this regard; if it's already in reliable source
> material, then the cat is out of the bag and deleting it from
> Wikipedia serves no practical good.
>
> -Matt

But we include a birthdate for [[James Randi]] when it is no secret
that certianly the normal sources include false dates.

-- 
geni



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