.......Years of birth
WP:BLPPRIVACY says: "If a subject complains about our inclusion of their date of birth, or the person is borderline notable, err on the side of caution and simply list the year, provided that there is a reliable source for it."
What should we do when BLP subjects complain about even the year being included? I've had several instances of female subjects asking that their year of birth be removed, even when it's reliably sourced. I have some sympathy for this. Because of age and gender discrimination, these issues hit women much harder, so I'm inclined to remove the information, so long as it isn't widely available and there's nothing contentious about it. But removing it opens up other issues. If someone completed a BA in 1980, there's a good chance they were born around 1959. If we're asked to remove the year of graduation, should we do that too?
How far do other editors go to accommodate these requests? SarahSV (talk) 20:17, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
What a horrible human being. What a perfect example of the sort of women who is attracted to the Wikipedia environment.My personal opinion is that if a person is a public figure, they don't have the right to censor accurate information about their date of birth. I think it is craven to assert or imply that they do. We are an encyclopedia, not a PR firm. Softlavender (talk) 06:09, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
Watch her do her thing at ANI, where she delights in viciously demanding retribution for anyone who doesn't follow the rulez, even in cases where doing so is ridiculous, and you will get an idea of what I mean. An example was posted here....
https://www.wikipediasucks.co/forum/vie ... 6801#p6801
