Question

Created Robert Mugabe - President of Zim. Notable? If so, please add TAG.

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If he is here I cant find him at all, and the profile I created should be merged...

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I was not able to find any duplicate profiles.

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Thought I had gone dilly!! Please help with a Tag...

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Isn't there a category for dictators?

Answer 1

Stephen, Robert Mugabe's profile is private since he's still living. You're very welcome to add the {{Notables}} template and relevant categories to his profile. Then follow the steps here to add the project account as a manager in case someone needs to make a connection while you're away:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Notables#Goals

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You may want to add him to the category "Politicians". I couldn't find any others that seemed applicable, but I may not have looked in the right direction.

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I might be wrong, but I think placing him in the Notables category should bring him out of Unlisted status (the default status for living non-members). Then he'd be some version of Private, and thus discoverable.

Public figures are, well, public figures, and thus subject to a different set of privacy rules. They still deserve privacy, of course, but their names are not protected to the same level as "ordinary citizens".

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Due to the privacy laws enacted by the European GDPR regulation, it is not allowed to reveal private information about living persons - famous or otherwise. WikiTree has taken a no tolerance approach towards this, which means that these profiles will remain in an Unlisted status until they pass away - at which point we can work on them again. I'd be the first in line if I thought we could open up privacy on Notables, but it's too risky to put WikiTree in the spotlight when EU lawyers are hunting for a potential "landmark" court case to prove the GDPR, and I'm certain we would not want to be first in that line.