[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - relation, type=person

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Thu Oct 16 14:44:26 UTC 2014


2014-10-15 12:57 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com>:

> hird mistake : It is not strictly reserved for "notable" people and
> can be used to name all graves in a cemetery (which might be forbiden
> in some countries). Privacy is never mentionned. To solve this, you
> could enforce a link to wikipedia because they are already an
> "encyclopedia" and check people notability
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28people%29). And
> once you create a link to wikipedia (or wikidata), you don't need the
> relation anymore-
>
>

apart from the question whether the relation is or isn't a good idea, I
wanted to point out that dead people do not have any privacy rights or
other personal rights (at least not in the jurisdictions I am aware of).

cheers,
Martin
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