On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Laurence Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This can be a very tricky issue. The Furry community has had to deal >> with it in the past, because they have articles on members of that >> subculture, and it can be very upsetting to people to have an >> "encyclopedic" rehashing of unfortunate events from some years back. > > This area was a recent subject of discussion on Wikipedia, and I wrote a > summary of what we did to deal with it there: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:OPTOUT#How_this_works_in_practice
I just want to highlight this link. http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/WikiFur:Personal_information is an excellent policy where "any person may request personal exclusion". I would recommend any wiki consider this policy, especially if they are writing about non-public figures. Angela _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
