Wikipedia:Personal information

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Personal Information is any non-public information about a living person that is factual in nature that would negatively impact his or her personal life if it were to become public. Personal information can include, but is not limited to names, birthdays, telephone numbers, and social security numbers. Personal information is considered acceptible if it is easily verified and comes from a non-original source.

Personal information may not be included anywhere in Wikipedia, including article pages, talk pages, articles for deletion, user pages, or user talk pages. Depending on the information, edits that contain personal information may be subject to deletion in order to remove them from Wikipedia history.

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If you feel that personal information has been posted somewhere, please notify an administrator so that it may be taken care of. Please be aware that the sooner you contact an administrator, the easier it will be for the administrator to remove unwanted information.