[Wikia-l] Slander/libel considerations on Wikia

[Angela]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Laurence Parry
<greenreaper at hotmail.com> 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