[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as moral tool?

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 5 Jun 2007 at 06:51:04 -0700, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.com> 
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.

Since when do we give home addresses of anybody, living or dead, in 
our bios?  One of the things that we're WP:NOT is an address book.  
The only exceptions I can think of are the rare cases where the home 
location is actually a historic site of some sort (like it's a 
building on the register of historic places, or some significant 
noteworthy event took place there and received news coverage that 
noted its exact location).  Thus, we can note the location of the 
Dakota Apartments where John Lennon was killed, and the location of 
the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia (a historic site open to the 
public), but not the home locations of just anybody even if the 
person is notable (their house generally isn't).


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