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==Biographical info== | ==Biographical info== | ||
Before biographical information should be posted about anyone (or their pseudonym), '''both''' of the following criteria should be met: | |||
: | #The person meets [[WikiIndex:Notability|WikiIndex's notability requirement]]. | ||
#The information was obtained "legitimately": This may be defined by their level of consent, or at least it would probably have to be within legal requirements or WikiIndex may be subject to a lawsuit. | |||
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Who is "[[WikiIndex:Notability|notable]]" enough to warrant biographical info be posted about them? | |||
:" | ---- | ||
'''Biographical information should not be included if it does not meet the following standard:''' | |||
===Youth=== | |||
Separate standards may be established for (note laws already exist, someone might provide some links to them): | |||
*Privacy of "children" (under 14 years of age) | |||
*Privacy of "adolescents" (14 to 18 years of age) | |||
*Privacy of "adults" (18 or older) | |||
There is of course, a little difficulty, at least in distinguishing adolescents from adults and distinguishing children from adolescents when we are dealing with only text. | |||
===Legitimate acquisition of biographical info about "adults"=== | |||
By order of most consensual to least: | |||
*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"): | |||
*"Private" online conversations. | |||
*Hacking. | |||
*Someone outs someone they know from real life. | |||
*(Any other ideas for the geek paparazzi?) | |||
([https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons Wikipedia's policy on biographical info]) | ([https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons Wikipedia's policy on biographical info]) | ||
===Where should this information be forbidden?=== | |||
*Should this information be deleted from articles on WikiIndex? | |||
*How about talk pages or edit histories: | |||
**When it is for the apparent administrative purpose of "analyzing" the claims to determine enforcement or advice? | |||
**When the apparent purpose of posting the "private" info is to "punish" or "protest" by means of exposing this "private" info? | |||
===Implementation or enforcement=== | |||
After we reach some consensus standard, '''as to what is polite or legitimate''', the second question is, what is the polite or legitimate way to implement or enforce these guidelines? Will censoring actually 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. 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]]. [[User:Lumenos|Lumenos]] | |||
==Notablity== | ==Notablity== | ||