QUOTE(Pumpkin Muffins @ Tue 18th March 2008, 7:28am)
I don't know why a guy that
creates a website about himself objects to publicity, except that maybe he has his head crammed up his ass.
If I was notable enough to have a Wikipedia page, I would object to their being one, even if I had a blog detailing every time I took a dump. Reason? I'd be in control of my blog. If some fan site, or movie trivia site, or whatever, were to libel him, there would be some person who was ultimately responsible who could be sued. Not so with WP.
The average person searching Google for information will often end up at a WP article, and most of them will (wrongly) trust what they find there. Given that reality, and given the freely editable nature of WP, imagine the potential damage that could be done to a notable person's career.
I think it makes perfect sense for Mr. Murphy to not want the 3rd result for his name on Google to be a WP article, and I think WP policy ought to be to delete the articles of living persons on request and prevent them from being recreated, as long as their identity can be established.