[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as moral tool?

[Bryan Derksen]

Sean Barrett wrote:
> I would assume that he is referring to how we handle BLP-style facts.
> Consider the home address and school attended by, say twelve-year-old TV
> actors [[Sullivan and Sawyer Sweeten]].  We have collectively agreed
> that those facts should be suppressed, even if we could reliably verify
> them.

But we don't even need to touch on morality as a reason for doing that.
It's simpler to realize that it would be silly to include a home address
in _any_ biographical article, living, dead, or undead. It's just not
something that encyclopedias do, generally speaking, unless there's some
very specific reason or the address in question is itself famous (the
various head-of-state residences, for example).

We also don't generally include people's eye color in their articles
either, since unless they're famous for it in some way there's really no
point to such detail.

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