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fundamental human right to employment and basic living conditions, and the governmental agenda that people with even minor convictions be stigmatized, that the stigmatized (even non-criminals) be denied a chance to make a living, and that the inevitable resulting crime against humanity of people dropping out the bottom of the system should be applauded as a sacrifice on the altar of Social Darwinism. That we cannot fix here, though fix it we must. What we have to do here is to uphold the right of our readers to freedom of inquiry, to learn the relevant material from the existing sources without censorship, because with as many rights as we lack we can't give away more. The harder viewer will say that it is not Knowledge's role to help someone get a job by lying about a criminal background on the application; and if an employer doesn't even ask they presumably won't be reading Knowledge to find out, and so there is no circumstance in which we cause harm that is not the
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and support myself. I have NO money from my acting career and NO residuals, so by leaving this here, you will be making me destitute and homeless. Please honor my request. Also, Marijuana is now legal in Colorado. I don't mind the acting part, and the part about the bands, but please remove my legal troubles. Thank you, Brian.
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While the IP address above makes a heartwrenching claim that does urge us to be careful about how we treat people, we cannot possibly accept that every time a comment is left saying "Honest, I'm so and so" that this will be the truth, because people would certainly abuse it just to play mind games on
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I am Brian Bonsall and I hereby request that you remove this section under the "right to be forgotten" ruling set by the Court of Justice in May 2014. I am no longer a public figure, and I have no plans to return to acting. I am trying to get a job, and this section makes it impossible for me to work
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Knowledge must not give credit to any law anywhere in the world pushing for censorship of its articles. If that means burning the Netherlands server and increasing access times for Europeans, so be it; but I have seen no proof that what that server does is even covered, since it is essentially just
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I went ahead and removed all of this because it is way too detailed and out of step with BLP values to list court appearances and arrests exhaustively. As far as I can see, none of these incidents resulted in a custodial sentence. For a non-famous person, a DUI incident or arrest for possession of
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www.usmagazine.us was registered yesterday and also reported the death of Seinfeld's Wayne Knight and possibly Chumlee from Pawn Stars. It looks like a cheap knockoff of US Weekly magazine. Unfortunately, the news of Knight's death hit Facebook's "Trending" feed. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be
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Marijuana is more legal now than it was in 2010, but that doesn't change what happened then. Any employer who would hold that against you can Google your name to find many outside sources about your crimes, regardless of whether Knowledge kept it. So if it's as big an employment issue as you say,
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We should keep more than half the material, concerning convictions and sentencing, but by usual standards probably not arrests, though as mentioned the verbosity can be reduced. We have a cognitive dissonance here because of the conflict between our innate sense that everyone should have a
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is a remarkable true story from the UK in 2013. It would undoubtedly have helped the person concerned if mentioning the conviction had been deemed "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed" in line with
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sourced claims about anything here, but I don't feel strongly enough against it to argue. If Knowledge was the sole place for info, rather than just the top search result, I'd be more defensive. Prominent online if you combine his name with a term a cautious human resourcer
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Yeah, arrests without follow-up aren't too important. Everyone's suspicious sometimes. Innocent till proven guilty. Pleading guilty counts as proof enough, and the public should know about all violent crimes, not just the hardcore cases. I'd keep those, in a perfect
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child actor. The entertainment media likes that angle, and (to an extent) we mirror the sources. Of course, they go a bit overboard with their storytelling and treatment of fame. But is it neutral to make that judgment call ourselves, or should we just reflect the
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Change the header to just "Legal issues", maybe, and leave what goes on in his own mind and body where it belongs. Instead of detailing his probation violations, just note he had "several" or "a few" and let the reference do the unabridged work, for people
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marijuana is worth a few paragraphs in the local newspaper, not a major write-up in their biography. This type of incident needs to be handled with care, with the author asking "Does this really add something important that the reader needs to know?" "
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A hoax article at usmagazine.us (not the real website of US Magazine, btw) has been created to spread rumours about the article subject. (The hoax is repeated at a fake TMZ website as well.) Please do not repeat the hoax here. Thanks.
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into celebrities. No need for the first sentence; the header's the introduction. Other pointless words like "however", "coupled with", "after more than a year", "stated that".
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The real issue here is whether a litany of court appearances and convictions is necessary. It probably isn't, and should be trimmed. Brian Bonsall should have a look at
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Good idea. I've asked for page protection for this article too. Last time I looked, there were only two sites, so I can see the possibility of persistence. --
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Still better than what they'd find for poor "Brian Bosnell". Remember to print clearly on applications; the dead can vote in America, but that's about it.
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This guy has a lot of acting under his belt, but almost the entire article is about every single little detail of his problems with the law.
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Knowledge is based in Florida and works under Florida law. That ruling was in Europe, and regarded Google results. No direct connection.
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before editing in this regard. Editors should note that failure to follow this policy may result in the removal of editing privileges.--
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1979 in the infobox may have been introduced in a past edit and nobody noticed it. The online sourcing is consistent in giving 1981.--
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This means that Wikimedia content is held on servers under US jurisdiction, although there are also servers in the Netherlands.
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There's Ebuzzd and OKMagazine, too. Not directly linked to this story, but others like it. All part of the same web. RIP
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Some of it is undue to the point of trivia, eg "in 2004, he was arrested under suspicion of drunk driving" cited to
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For the record, little or nothing was removed, just rearranged/edited to be two sentences instead of five.
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be immediately removed. Note that the removal does not imply that the information is either true or false.
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I've proposed that site (and its three friends) for the Knowledge blacklist. Shouldn't be controversial.
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NHS boss on £250,000 a year fired after colleague discovered he had been jailed for armed robbery
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Article says 1981, infobox says 1979. I don't know which one's true, but that's a thing.
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http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/jul/15/boulders-family-ties-star-trouble-again/
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Undue if we consider him a famous child actor. Due if we consider him a famous
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unless you can provide reliable citations, and can ensure it is written in a
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it's a bigger problem than we can solve here. Good luck, though, personally.
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In January 2013, Wikimedia moved its primary hosting to Ashburn, Virginia.
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I have removed material from this article that does not comply with our
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I have reverted your changes, the removal of information was done on
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relaying information as countless servers on the internet do.
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It was striking to me to compare Bonsall's page with
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