[WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons

[Ian Woollard]

2009/1/2 toddmallen <toddmallen at gmail.com>:
> Actually, I do see it as a false dichotomy. We're presenting it as
> "rights" against publication of verifiable, reliable,
> already-published material. These rights do not exist. I do not have a
> right to tell you that you may not talk about me or publish
> information about me, provided what you say is true.

If I understand you correctly, you would be (theoretically) fine with
me creating a wikipedia page of you and filling it with true
information about you, including your social security number, bank
account number, telephone number, mothers maiden name, address, entire
sexual history, provided all of this can be said to be correct by a
notable source and referenced correctly?

I'm assuming not, at least I hope not.

But in practice then, legally and morally and by wiki policy and
guidelines, these rights to demand that information be removed do
exist for certain classes of information.

So I think what we're really discussing here *which* kinds of personal
information may be published in the wikipedia and under what
circumstances.

-- 
-Ian Woollard

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imperfect world would be much better.