On 3/8/07, The Cunctator cunctator@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