On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Ian Woollard wrote:
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?
The problem with this statement is that the fact that few of these
things are known publicly and the inappropriateness of publishing them
in Wikipedia are correlated. My telephone number is already on the
internet where any idiot with ten seconds to spare can find it
(
http://www.411.ca) which also tells you my street address. The rest
of these things simply aren't available, which is reflective of the
fact that publishing them is seen as inappropriate -
Most of these things on Ian's list are ones that we wouldn't include
anyways. The mother's maiden name may be biographically relevant, and in
exceptional cases the sexual history, but we can probably achieve near
unanimity about keeping the rest out. That doesn't translate into some
kind of blanket policy to withhold anything that the subject wants kept
out.
Ec