My original wiki turned read only when trouble makers showed up and made credible threats for my read-write site. Since then I get email requesting modifications for various personal reasons. I engage by email to be sure that this is an honest request and then suggest a modest modification that might meet the requestor's needs. This works and leads to many thanks.
Except today. Transcript follows, edited for brevity.
# Andrevan please remove https://wiki.c2.com/?AndrewFader # Ward Cunningham The original wiki is a historic document so any editing is tampering with this history which I do carefully. Are you or were you once Andrew Fader? # Andrevan I understand the history but the world was a different place then. Today I can be doxxed and harassed. Please remove the AndreVan and AndrewFader pages. It is supposed to be a wiki meaning anyone can edit it. I realize it's locked now but please remove it for my privacy as I created those pages and now have no recourse through the software to edit # Ward Cunningham So you are not Andrew Fader? # Andrevan Yes I am Andrew fader I'll send a scan of my id if you wish to prove who I am # Ward Cunningham It would be simpler for me to disassociate those two pages. # Andrevan Please remove Andrew Fader it's a privacy issue. I don't want a record of that tied to my other names and identities. Do you have a privacy policy? Can't you just remove the pages or do I have to hire a lawyer to send a letter? I'm a fan of yours. Please do right here # Ward Cunningham I offered to disassociate the two pages. Be sure to have your lawyer explain what harm you are suffering once I have done so. And be sure to demonstrate that you are not confusing identities based on common names. # Andrevan I'm asking you to remove my personal information. Do you have a privacy policy? Do I understand correctly you refuse to remove my full name and my workplace Are you seriously refusing to honor this request? Are you not aware there are laws protecting privacy and requiring privacy policies to be followed? You do understand there are people doxxing and harassing me That's frankly unethical and inhuman to refuse a reasonable request I created those pages in 2004 or whatever It's a wiki so I could have taken them down, and now I cannot I am Andrew Fader So you have no privacy policy correct? Are you located in Oregon? Need to know which privacy law to use Filing complaint with Oregon doj Have now complained to Oregon, New York attorneys general and the Consumer Financial Protection bureau You could just remove the pages and save yourselves the trouble. I hereby withdraw my license for you to use my name or likeness or aliases or copyrighted content on those pages. Have filed abuse concerns with your iSP as well. # Andrew Fader Have filed legal concern with digitalocean
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Having received no further instructions I removed the association between the two pages.