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==Biographical info==
==Biographical info==


([https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons Wikipedia's policy on biographical info])
If someone claiming to be an adult, puts information about themselves in a place on the Internet, that they know is visible to anyone who finds it (without any "hacking"):
If someone claiming to be an adult, puts information about themselves in a place on the Internet, that they know is visible to anyone who finds it (without any "hacking"):
:Should this information be placed in articles on WikiIndex?  
:Should this information be placed in articles on WikiIndex?  
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After we establish what is polite, the second question is, what is the polite way to implement this? Will censoring work or will it result in the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Streisand_effect Streisand effect]? If you have even one determined "protester", privacy is quite difficult to protect once the "info genie" is out of the bottle. Especially when there are edit histories, and talk pages where most any info is generally allowed, forums where only administrators can remove info from posts, etc. And '''no one is reading only this one site'''. The block, delete, and oversite policies must take into account the logistic/practical question of whether these measures will have the intended result. This has to be balanced according to <del>geek mob rule</del> [[WikiIndex:Policies_and_Guidelines#Community_consensus|community consensus]].
After we establish what is polite, the second question is, what is the polite way to implement this? Will censoring work or will it result in the [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Streisand_effect Streisand effect]? If you have even one determined "protester", privacy is quite difficult to protect once the "info genie" is out of the bottle. Especially when there are edit histories, and talk pages where most any info is generally allowed, forums where only administrators can remove info from posts, etc. And '''no one is reading only this one site'''. The block, delete, and oversite policies must take into account the logistic/practical question of whether these measures will have the intended result. This has to be balanced according to <del>geek mob rule</del> [[WikiIndex:Policies_and_Guidelines#Community_consensus|community consensus]].
([https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons Wikipedia's policy on biographical info])


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