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Personal life section edit
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I have a conflict of interest as I am the subject of this page and this is the reason I am using this procedure.
My request is for the section Personal Life to be deleted entirely as it contains private information about my marital status of the kind that is not usually included on biographical pages of others in my position (university teachers who are not otherwise public figures).
I completely accept that the original section was put up in good faith.
MercuriusScottus (talk) 17:21, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
Partly done: Section removed inline with WP:BLP and due to overabundance of caution given the privacy claim. Requesting WP:OVERSIGHT. Melmann 16:26, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- @MercuriusScottus: Hi. I am assuming good faith and accepting your claim to be article subject. I have removed the personal life section, but the information is not truly gone because it can still be found in the page history. Therefore, I have sent an email to the 'Oversight team' who have the technical capability to suppress the information and delete it from the page history. Whether they choose to act on my email is up to them, but generally they're pretty sympathetic to privacy concerns.
Secondly, WP:COI guideline does not prevent you from removing private information or obvious errors, and you did not need to wait for me to see your message 10 days later. If you see in the future any such personal info, please remove it yourself (but please be sure to really use it on private info, not just stuff you don't like). The reason why your previous attempt to remove the section was reverted is because you did not offer an explanation. Unexplained content removal is generally seen as vandalism, but in the future, if you remove private info, just leave a note saying so in the edit summary (and optionally here on the talk page) and your edit is far less likely to be challenged.
Finally, in the future, if you need to attract attention to private info, please use the template {{helpme}} and place it on your talk page (User talk:MercuriusScottus). In most cases, you will get a response from a volunteer within half an hour. Also, check out Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects.
@Oversight: First revision intorducing the section is Special:PermanentLink/1016564024. Melmann 16:40, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
- @MercuriusScottus: Hi. I am assuming good faith and accepting your claim to be article subject. I have removed the personal life section, but the information is not truly gone because it can still be found in the page history. Therefore, I have sent an email to the 'Oversight team' who have the technical capability to suppress the information and delete it from the page history. Whether they choose to act on my email is up to them, but generally they're pretty sympathetic to privacy concerns.
