> toddmallen wrote: > >> People are readily identifiable by the information given about them >> anyway. How hard is it to find the Star Wars kid's name, even from our >> article, where all the sources we use readily publish it, or a google >> search on the article title brings it right up? If something is in >> public already (which it by definition is, if reliable sources >> available to the public have published it), it is no longer private. >> You can say that's good, or bad, or simply inevitable, but it's still >> the fact, and to think we can stuff genies back in bottles (even >> provided that to do so would be desirable, an odd position for a >> project specifically dedicated to making information available to >> take) is monumental hubris. We're big, but we're not -that- big. >> >> > > (Off-Topic): > > And yet, see [[illegal prime]], and [[AACS encryption key controversy]]. > > > Yours, > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
The idea is that we do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l