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I'm inclined to add everything I can find, including the 185 from the other feed you identified. It's a service to the community; I find it hard to imagine that anyone would object...

I think generally the linking of databases tends to raise privacy concerns. It is not obvious to me whether this is in principle permissible under the GDPR.

We seem to have moved a fair way from the earliest comment What's not to like? If someone doesn't like it, they can leave it blank.

I don't particularly want this on my own profile, but I'm happy enough to edit it out again if I have the capability to do that. To me it would seem rude if the system added this to my profile without my consent or opt-in and did not give me the option to remove it.

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Re^6: User Profile Element: CPAN author ID
by erzuuli (Cannon) on Apr 19, 2022 at 18:54 UTC

    hv, I have not added it to your profile. That means it wasn't in the data provided by the relevant APIs on CPAN.org and MetaCPAN.org.

    I don't quite understand your argument about privacy. As it stands, only those users who have explicitly made a link from their CPAN account to their PerlMonks account have the opposite link shown. Those users have already published the association. I'm not making public any connection which was heretofore private.

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      Well you say I'm inclined to add everything I can find, so that could in principle go far beyond users who have explicitly made a link in the other direction.

      Privacy is a fraught business. Making this an option available to people sounds like a good thing, but my cautionary instincts suggest making it opt-in would be a wise approach.

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        You're right; I should have been more clear and explicit. Please see the root node, which details the sources of the data I used.

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