I agree with everything you say 100%. On Fri 1 Jun, 2018, 2:50 AM sashi, <learn...@creoliste.fr> wrote:
> Another follow-up: > > ====== > Benjamin Lees wrote: "No, French Christians are just tagged with > subcategories of Category:French Christians. The "requiring diffusion" > category that you complain of is in fact a way to tell editors that > pages in the category should really be in subcategories instead." > ====== > > Aha! You're right, I had not realized that "diffuse" (disseminate/spread > widely) was being used as specialized en-wiki-jargon for > "subcategorize". It might be wise to give that hidden category a more > descriptive name. > > I looked into one of the many BLP entries with an unscourced > Category:French Jews tag, and found a review of a book they wrote. In > that book, the person stated that while they had a Jewish mother, they > did not consider themselves Jewish. > > Given that the category French Jews contains more members than the > category French Roman Catholics, and that there are living people > included in both categories... I seriously wonder what it is that > motivates folks to anonymously tag others in this way (i.e. whether they > want to be tagged or not). > > The Library of Congress, the BNF, Wikidata, etc. don't label people > according to religion, unless their notability is due specifically to > their religion (e.g. Alfred Dreyfus, Maimonides, etc.). On en.wp people > being labeled as Jewish/Catholic, etc. tend to be industrialists, > politicians, journalists, bankers etc. I don't think this is "best > practice" and I'm afraid I do not agree that en.wp is mostly "getting it > right" with regard to this specific question. Fr.WP and Wikidata are > doing much better. > > The relevant section on "data subject" privacy rights in the GDPR (in > English) is based on the 1978 French law I cited earlier (though it has > become more restrictive since -- see below). As David Gerard noted, it > is quite likely that this affects not only Wikipedians (who can petition > to have libel/slander concerning their *online identity* (cf. definition > of data subject) removed from (inter alia) block logs), but also the > *content* of biographies of living people in the encyclopedia. > > == GDPR (Article 9)== > > *Processing* of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, > political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union > membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the > purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health > or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation > shall be prohibited. > > ====== > > As one who has contributed to the projects since 2006, I am posting this > here not because I wish to sow dissent, but because I think some quick > thinking and corrective action is needed. > > sashi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
