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Acquittal of German Wikipedia

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 9, 2006 @02:06AM from the encyclopedia-of-everything-keeps-keeping-on dept.

Rock-n-Rolf writes "In a previous story Slashdot reported that the German Wikipedia was threatened with injunction. The court has now ruled, as reported in German magazine Spiegel, and Wikipedia is likely to remain online (Babelfish translation). The dispute was about Wikipedia publishing the real name of a dead hacker in an article, and the parents objected to this."

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Now would be a good time... by greppling · 2006-02-09 02:11 · Score: 4, Insightful

...to remove the name from article, IMHO. It was important to defend the right to give the name. But the name does not add anything to the article, and if it hurts the feeling of those closely involved, there is a good case for not mentioning it.
Just because you CAN mention the name, this doesn't mean you have to.
1. Re:Now would be a good time... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-09 02:15 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  How is someone's real name not relevant to an article about that person? You can't change history just because you are ashamed of your son.
Re:It's a basic policy not anything evil! by pe1rxq · 2006-02-09 02:22 · Score: 4, Insightful

It is because in some countries even criminals (or in your example only accused) have rights.
When they have served there sentence they should be able to go on and have a live.

This is contrary to countries were sentences are not ment to correct ones behaviour but to ease the blood thirsty angry mob.

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