[Wikipedia-l] Where ends the responsibility of Wikipedia? (personal information of people)

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 1/29/06, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> Can someone really "run up a big bill and leave you with it"?  I
> thought your authorization was needed in order to enter into a loan.

But they got 'your' authorization.

> IOW, I thought that while the credit reporting agencies might report
> the outstanding loan, no court would actually attempt to enforce such
> a loan.
>
> Straightening out your credit rating can occassionally be difficult,
> but the vast majority of the time it's actually quite straightforward.
>  Actually getting a bank to "forgive" a debt on the other hand...

The challenge can be convincing them it wasn't you... once you've done
that it's just a matter of getting people to apply some common sense.