SP wrote:
Can anyone remember any place in Wikipedia English
where naming rape
victims in articles is discussed? I'm trying to find community
consensus, one way or the other, on this point.
This sort of stuff is discussed constantly in a variety of contexts, and
I think that in most of them the consensus ends up as "publish the
information if it has already been published by a mainstream news source".
In addition to crime victims, other cases where it comes up are:
* The names of underaged alleged criminals
* Secret or semi-secret information about an organization's internal
workings (e.g. Scientology).
* Leaked classified information
In all these cases, the consensus, as far as I can tell, is that
refraining from publishing something that has already been widely
published does not really accomplish much besides make our articles less
informative. We shouldn't "out" people or "break" stories
ourselves, or
republish information that has only been previously published in
fringe/sketchy sources, but summarizing what has already been reported
in the mainstream media is fair game.
-Mark