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

[Anthony]

On 8/30/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> > Of course the fact that it's not useful information combined with the
> > fact that it's almost never an easily verified fact is an equally good
> > reason.
>
> 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.
>
I think the instances where we have a reliable source for someone's
exact birthdate are very low, however.