On 3/8/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A modest proposal: allow users to link to Wikipedia
articles about
themselves (an "identity link"). We may want to segregate off the identity
articles (because of notability concerns), but we have excellent systems in
place for verification and attribution for articles in the general space.
Would we have any ownership of our own articles? I'd rather not have
private details of my life up on a wiki page. My concern with your
proposal is privacy, not notability. I realize the link would be
optional, but an on/off switch is much more coarsely grained than the
current system.
Also, verifiability seems too strong for this, because it means
*anyone* can verify the details. Perhaps someone wants to state that
they are a professor, but not give details of where they teach out to
the world to be edited mercilessly. A private confidential
verification might be acceptable, but not a public one.
Anthony