[WikiEN-l] Newyorkbrad's speech at Wikiconference New York

[Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)]

This is a very valid point in terms of another way of approaching the issue.

(In evaluating the speech for completeness, do bear in mind that I only had
a certain amount of time and couldn't make every possible point, but I
should have found room for this one.)

Newyorkbrad

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Actually a point I felt was missing from NYB's talk, which took
> "privacy" as general theme, was this: as we know from WP:NOT, Wikipedia
> is not concerned with "indiscriminate" information. This ought to
> provide some clear blue water between us and popular journalism, which
> actually uses "indiscimination" quite often as a technique (e.g. twenty
> things you didn't know about some reality TV star, or lists of peoplr
> whose birthday is today). The argument put forth under the "where are
> they now?" discussion should be considered under this heading, I
> believe. Someone who won an Olympic medal 30 years ago is now pumping
> gas? If we exclude that from the athlete's WP article, is it (a)
> censorship, (b) respect for privacy, or (c) application of WP:NOT under
> the general heading  of including the salient facts on someone, not
> everything that has ever been printed?
>
> Anyway, while the basic points that "privacy in the old sense of
> protection from intrusive publication may not exist in the Internet age"
> and "attack pages with high search engine prominence do work" may be
> valid, I had this comment to make about the concluding section of the
> talk, namely that we have our mission and it is not identical to tabloid
> journalism.
>
> Charles
>
>
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