[WikiEN-l] Rorschach wars continue

[Ray Saintonge]

Ken Arromdee wrote:
> The same argument can be made about any issue which just involves privacy and
> not even danger to lives.  If you search for Brian Peppers on the Internet,
> you can still find all the information you want; that's not an excuse for
> Wikipedia to have the article.
>   

But then neither is it an excuse for not having such an article.

> Someone else who is thinking of putting the information up can easily think
> "even if I didn't put it up, Wikipedia would have the top search ranking".
> You end up with everyone passing the responsibility to everyone else to stop it
> first.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility


Search ranking should not be a factor in deciding whether to have an 
article.  Higher search ranking will develop after an article is 
written. The argument from diffusion of responsibility could more easily 
be about the responsibility for failure to add the material.  Diffusion 
of responsibility is more about situations where harm is clearly being 
done, as with someone being beaten-up.  In our case the harm is 
ambiguous at best.

Ec