Comment 15 for bug 262193

> is tantamount to saying "nobody should edit a wikipedia page about me"

Well, I'm not a notable person by Wikipedia's standards... so actually that's right, nobody should edit a Wikipedia page about me :)

Wikipedia isn't a clearly similar case. Wikipedia has a lot of policies regarding information about living people on top of its usual policies about notability etc. These policies include not publishing information about material not relevant to a persons notability — so even Wikipedia would generally disallow including home location details in a biography. See the rather large http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographies_of_living_persons for the precise policies.

Wikipedia also has a community and processes that seem to be fairly effective at regularly checking and enforcing those policies.

A more analogous system might be Facebook, which like Launchpad has pages for many unnotable people that are users of Facebook. Facebook lets those users specify exactly how much personal information they want to share (modulo the occasional bug).

> We do specifically recommend that folks not disclose home addresses, but
> simply approximate location accurately enough to get time zones right.

There's a separate drop-down for selecting the time zone already, so by this argument the location map is completely redundant.

Part of the problem might be due to the overly-precise nature of a point on a google map. You can't just say "I live in this city", you have to give a very precise location, precise enough that it indicates a specific street or block.