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Kirrily Robert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">----- "Shawn Simister" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:narphorium@gmail.com"><narphorium@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What about about letting registered users "claim" their /people/person
topic and gain certain special editing rights to that topic. Of
course,
someone could just go and create a new topic called Shawn Simister and
do whatever they want to it but until they start attaching my blog or
social networking profiles to it, its pretty hard to say that its not
just someone with the same name. Once someone can be linked to more
than
a couple major news articles they would be considered a public figure
and lose their special rights.
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1) How do you stop me from claiming "Barack Obama"?
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This is that hard part but I'm imagining some sort of link-back scheme
where you would have to link back to the Freebase topic from
BarackObama.com or other sources that would establish your identity.
ClaimID has done this to help people aggregate their various online
identities around a single OpenID. Freebase would have to define a
minimum set of properties that would have to be "verified" before a
user could claim that person topic.<br>
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<pre wrap="">2) How do you stop Barack Obama from claiming "Barack Obama" and thus controlling what's said about him, even though he's a public figure and probably shouldn't be protected in that way?
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Once a person can be linked to several news events they would lose that
sort of control and revert to normal Freebase permissions. Again,
Freebase would have to define exactly what counts as being a public
figure, but I feel that being in the news (or in Wikipedia) is a good
measurement.<br>
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K.
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