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23 October 2015

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All above are single purpose accounts that remove the age of Fiona Graham in her biography on Wikipedia. A summary is here of the controversy: Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive230. User:Chriss1991 appears to be pretending to be Fiona Graham in correspondences with the Library of Congress to remove the birth year, 1961, from their catalog. Geishas have a 400 year tradition of not revealing their age, hence the campaign to have Graham's age removed from the article and from the LOC authority control file. The email User:Chriss1991 posted says: "When we removed your birth date, we added a note that you had asked it not be given. This is standard procedure to prevent other partner libraries from adding it back in. The date is no longer in the LC catalog and hasn't been since 2011 when your record was last updated. As to the privacy issue, the Library of Congress is a federal government agency and by definition, just about everything we do is public domain. You now need to ask Wikipedia to remove the information." (my emphasis added) This appears that they are impersonating her in correspondences with a United States government institution. The archived version of the Library of Congress authority control file is here on October 20, 2015 the birth date information was removed based on the email they received that day, their response back to Graham is in the possession of User:Chriss1991. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 04:31, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

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 * The age was removed from wikipedia for two reasons: it is not on the Library of Congress page and it is a breach of privacy. I am not saying I am Fiona Graham, on wikipedia or anywhere. Chriss1991 (talk) 03:22, 23 October 2015 (UTC)Chriss1991

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 * All but one account (Chriss1991) are Stale, and gathering of technical data is not possible. They did all remove birth date and/or year from Vanjagenije   (talk) ''' 08:15, 23 October 2015 (UTC)