[WikiEN-l] Opt out negative material in biographies

[andy.dyer9 at tiscali.co.uk]

> At what point do we start discussion people being
> accountable for their actions.  If someone was a 
> porn star in a previous life, that's what they were 
> - we're not "sacrificing" them by pointing it out, 
> especially when we're not the first.

If we were to be discussing people being accountable for their 
actions, then our first port of call would be to consider the 
accountability of an editor who posts an article about the girl who 
entered a "wet T-shirt competition" when she was 18.

Her kids could be tormented (perphaps literally) to death by the 
school-children who find out about it from Wikipedia. Or her husband 
could find it and use it to break up the family.

It's highly unlikely that, 3 or 5 or 10 years later that the husband 
would find out adequate detail from any other source, even if she/they 
were still to be living in the same street. Wikipedia has the 
potential, quite easily and thoughtlessly, of wrecking the lives of 
several people, just with one article.

Remember - the money and influence of a President's son may have saved 
him from us finding out why he was (supposedly) working on a community 
program that specialised in re-habilitating cocaine users in 1973 (when 
he appears to have been AWOL). Up to 300 million other Americans have 
much less to hide, but don't have the same strings to pull.

Andy





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