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Outing draft
Posting another editor's personal information is harassment, unless that person has voluntarily posted his or her own information, or links to such information, on Wikipedia. Personal information includes legal name, date of birth, identification numbers, home or workplace address, job title and work organisation, telephone number, email address, other contact information, or photograph, whether any such information is accurate or not. Posting such information about another editor is an unjustifiable and uninvited invasion of privacy and may place that editor at risk of harm outside of their activities on Wikipedia. Unless unintentional and non-malicious (for example, where Wikipedians know each other off-site and may inadvertently post personal information, such as using the other person's real name in discussions), attempted outing is grounds for an immediate block. Revealing private information of non-editors may be a violation of the biographies of living persons policy.

Any edit that "outs" someone must be reverted promptly, followed by a request for oversight to delete that edit from Wikipedia permanently. If the previously posted information has been removed by oversight, then repeating it on Wikipedia is considered outing. If you see an editor post personal information about another person, do not confirm or deny the accuracy of the information. Doing so would give the person posting the information and anyone else who saw the page feedback on the accuracy of the material. Do not treat incorrect attempts at outing any differently from correct attempts for the same reason. When reporting an attempted outing take care not to comment on the accuracy of the information. Outing should usually be described as "an attempted outing" or similar, to make it clear that the information may or may not be true, and it should be made clear that the block log and notice do not confirm the information.

If you have accidentally posted anything that might lead to your being outed (including but not limited to inadvertently editing while logged out, which reveals your IP address, and thus, your approximate location), it is important that you act promptly to have the edit(s) oversighted. Do not otherwise draw attention to the information. If an editor has previously posted their own personal information but later redacted it, it should not be repeated on Wikipedia. References to still-existing, self-disclosed information is not considered outing, and so the failure of an editor to have the information redacted in a timely manner removes it from protection by this policy. Further information about protecting private information is at Personal security practices, On privacy, and How to not get outed on Wikipedia.

The community has rejected the idea that editors should "investigate" each other. The fact that an editor has either posted personal information or edits under their own name, making them easily identifiable through online searches, is not an excuse for posting the results of "opposition research". Dredging up editors' off-site opinions to be used repeatedly to challenge their edits can be a form of harassment, just as doing so regarding their past edits on other Wikipedia articles may be. Threats to out an editor will be treated as a personal attack and can also result in a block.

Posting links to or directions for finding other websites where private information about an editor is displayed without that editor's consent (such as at doxing websites) is generally also a violation of the outing policy. On a case-by-case basis, posting links to information that is freely available to the public and which a person has, at any time, voluntarily made public is often permissible when investigating conflict of interest (COI) or paid editing, and may not necessarily be regarded as opposition research in this context.

Nothing in this policy prohibits the private emailing of personal information about editors to individual administrators, functionaries, or arbitrators, or to the Wikimedia Foundation, when doing so is necessary to report violations of confidentiality-sensitive policies (such as conflict-of-interest or paid editing, harassment, or violations of the child-protection policy). Issues involving private personal information (of anyone) can also be referred by email to a member of the functionaries team. Only the minimum information necessary should be conveyed and the minimum number of people contacted. If redacted or oversighted personally identifying material is important to a COI discussion, then it should be emailed privately to an administrator or arbitrator, but not repeated on Wikipedia – it will be sufficient to say that the editor in question has a COI and that the information has been emailed to the appropriate administrative authority. However, if individuals have identified themselves without redacting it or having it oversighted, such information can be used for discussions of COI in appropriate forums.

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header=This does not violate WP:BLP.

footer=No reasonable person would be misled into thinking that this is factual information about the same individual, as it is obviously intended satirically. The person at left is very much a public figure, and therefore is not protected from unflattering portrayal (and my apologies to the one at right). Some people will find it humorous, and others will be offended by it, but WP:NOTCENSORED. If it were in an article, it would violate WP:NPOV and probably WP:NOR, but this is not an article. Arguably, it could violate WP:NOTSOAPBOX and WP:NOTWEBHOST if it were purely an expression of political opinion, but here I am commenting on Wikipedia editing policies. See also WP:CRYBLP.