On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:58:08 -0500, you wrote:
The way to get around NOR problems in this case might be to suggest that we recommend that they create a webpage on their own webspace that says "I have been characterized in X source [wherever Wikipedia is getting the info] as having done Y. This is untrue, in reality I only did Z."
Honestly, I don't see that as necessary. If someone wants to come to the talk page and deny it, we can say they deny it. If they can cite reliable sources to support the denial, we can say the denial is supported by reliable sources. If they can prove it's all a figment of someone's imagination, or a vendetta conducted by a rival or whatever, we can just remove it. I don't have a problem interacting directly with biography subjects, as long as they are prepared to accept that their Wikipedia portrait will, in the end, be of the Oliver Cromwell school: warts and all. Guy (JzG)