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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
