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[Anthony]

> > > All depends on what the person did.  Prank call 911?  Leave the poor
> > > woman alone.  Try to molest a minor?  Have some respect for his human
> > > dignity.  That's Jimbo's answer, anyway.
> >
> > I'm afraid I don't understand. Could you rephrase that?
>
> I think the 911 one is a reference to an old article that was an early deletion under BLP, and the latter is probably about Brian Peppers.
>
The 911 reference is to a woman, let's call her "lonely Aloha woman",
who called 911 because she thought a deputy "was cute" and wanted him
to come back to her house.  Google "lonely Aloha woman" if you want
the full story.  Jimmy Wales used it on the mailing list as a
strawman, saying that we should "leave the poor woman alone" and not
have an article on her because we don't want that story to end up
being permanently presented as the number one google hit for this
"non-notable" person.

I call it a strawman because Jimmy was specifically using the
hypothetical situation to attack me and my support of there being an
article on Brian Peppers, and yet I don't think we *should* have an
article on this woman and in fact I've always felt that personal
privacy considerations should be taken into account when deciding on
whether or not to cover something in Wikipedia.

I think it's clearly a sliding scale though, and on that scale I think
clearly Brian Peppers deserves the least personal privacy and some
Wikipedian who was banned for pissing off a few admins deserves the
most.  The lonely Aloha woman also did something incredibly stupid,
but I don't think that justifies having a Wikipedia article come up as
the top Google result of a search for her name.  At least call the
article [[lonely Aloha woman]] if you insist on writing about it.  And
as far as I'm concerned I think Wikipedia's robots.txt should read
"Disallow: /" (imagine all the useless arguments doing that would
eliminate).