Election results and the right to be forgotten

[Adrian]

Jul 27, 2018 20:11:33 GMT andrewteale said:

Jul 27, 2018 19:58:02 GMT carlton43 said:

Surely we are now entering into fairy never-never land where historic document can be changed at the will of an oddball from the truth to a fiction of the fashionable moment?

At the time of the election that candidate had a name and an identity they freely used and it is a matter of legitimate legal and historic record who that candidate was.

If subsequently that person has a touch of the vapours and decides to go do-wally that is no business of ours one way or another but it cannot ever be the basis of backward alteration to the clear truth of the matter.

This sort of damn fool nonsense needs to be slapped down once for all before all our records are turned upside down on the whim of fools and freaks. 

I agree. People change their names all the time and that's not a problem; but altering the historical record is not on.

In this case, Mr Jas wants people to know he stood in that election. That's not unreasonable, but should be achieved by means of a footnote.

This reminds me of a recent edit I made to Wikipedia page, where the page stated that a certain place, long since bulldozed, was in West Sussex. The location is certainly in West Sussex, but the place was always in Surrey.