[WikiEN-l] Re: Brandt wishes to release personal details of all Wikipedia admins

Mon Dec 26 22:42:38 UTC 2005

MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:

>On 12/26/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>Matt Brown wrote:
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>>>On 12/26/05, Ilya N. <ilyanep at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>What I'm concerned about is if he starts putting out addresses, etc.
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>>>For which he could argue no justification, since Wikipedia does not
>>>publish such information about anyone.
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>>True enough, but it's also easy to look things like that up in an online
>>phone-book.
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>Really? I've tried to look someone up in a phone book before, but even
>if you know their name, you might still get 3 pages of names to go
>through.
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It will vary.  Very common names or people living in big cities will be 
more difficult to establish, but relatively rare names or small town 
people stand a better chance of being identified.  The level of the 
searcher's skill can make a big difference.

Ec