[WikiEN-l] Changing the AfD process (Was: Re: [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again)

[Anthony]

On 6/21/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What -is- the ethical
> > question? The information is already easily available to anyone who
> > wishes to find it, so right-to-privacy doesn't hold.
>
>
> Actually, it does.  We are not a newspaper archive and our standards
> are not theirs.  If we do not need to use the names of living private
> individuals, we should not do so, because *every* publication of
> information about a private individual diminishes his privacy, and
> while we are not in a position to control the contents of many
> newspaper archives, we certainly are in complete control of one of the
> most popular information sources on the planet.  We should not
> needlessly compromise privacy.
>
I can only agree with that for some value of "needlessly".  While
there are some cases where there's absolutely no benefit to adding a
name to an article, and other cases where there's absolutely no point
in having an article without having a name, it's those in-between
cases that are the ones where we have to make a judgment.