On 6/21/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/21/07, Tony Sidaway
<tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think this is true only if you think that
information is neutral,
irrespective of the form of presentation. Why would I not want to put
my son's excellent academic record, or my beautiful and talented
daughter's photograph, on a notice on every telegraph pole in my
neighborhood? I've nothing to be ashamed of, I'm a proud father, and
they're both adults, so why don't I just go ahead and do that?
You would probably run into your local anti-littering laws. There
would also be various issues of image rights by WP:V should keep
wikipedia covered in that respect.
Questioning the legality is avoiding the question. I don't put that
information on my web page, either, and that's completely legal.
By "WP:V" I assume you mean the verifiability policy. Well in many
cases information about relatively private people is quite verifiable,
because it appears in medical case studies and in newspapers. A
person's name is splashed all over the newspapers because he survives
the Virginia Tech massacre. Do we put his name into the encyclopedia?
I think it's good that we recognise that there is an ethical question
involved in such an act. It isn't as neutral an act of cataloguing as
we sometimes like to pretend.
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I'm not sure there's any "ethical issue" there at all. As you
stated,
those peoples' names are very well-known already. I would tend to agree
that we shouldn't present a "biography" of such since we can't present
a
complete one, but not even mentioning the names? That does indeed serve
an encyclopedic purpose-making things easier, for example, for a future
researcher who might be looking into the massacre, or wishes to follow
up. I would think that would outweigh any "ethical" considerations
of-what? Republishing already published information?