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 | This page in a nutshell: In light of BLP, editing about minors and persons legally judged incompetent should be especially protective of their rights. |
If a person is below the age of majority in their nation or locality or has been adjudged to be incompetent, editing about that person should be done with even greater care than in an ordinary biography of a living person, because in many jurisdictions, privacy and publicity rights require even greater protection than they do for competent adults. These people typically have less ability to protect their own rights, so we need to be more careful.
== To whom it applies == This is not about who are considered by other editors or by the Wikimedia Foundation to be incompetent to edit. This is about persons who might be legally incompetent or minors who are written about (or might be written about) by us in the encyclopedia.
This is not about persons whom someone believes to be incompetent by any standard, no matter how authoritatively, except for persons who have been adjudged by lawful authority (for example, a court authorized to make such decisions) to be incompetent generally to manage major personal decisions without supervision.
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