Ken Arromdee wrote: > The same argument can be made about any issue which just involves privacy and > not even danger to lives. If you search for Brian Peppers on the Internet, > you can still find all the information you want; that's not an excuse for > Wikipedia to have the article. >
But then neither is it an excuse for not having such an article. > Someone else who is thinking of putting the information up can easily think > "even if I didn't put it up, Wikipedia would have the top search ranking". > You end up with everyone passing the responsibility to everyone else to stop > it > first. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility Search ranking should not be a factor in deciding whether to have an article. Higher search ranking will develop after an article is written. The argument from diffusion of responsibility could more easily be about the responsibility for failure to add the material. Diffusion of responsibility is more about situations where harm is clearly being done, as with someone being beaten-up. In our case the harm is ambiguous at best. Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l