Private Data Shared on Bio [closed]

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During the course of performing routine Data Doctor improvements on profiles, I found a profile that causes me grave concern. I am not sharing the profile to avoid exacerbating the problem.

In a nutshell, a Wikiteer did a "cut and paste" of a private Wikitree message into the text profile of a potentially shared ancestor. It concerns a disagreement about the profile. The text of the message is included verbatim along with a link to the sender's profile and, wait for it, the sender's email address. This strikes me as a gross violation of privacy and probably a violation of multiple Wikitree policies. Even if I remove the private information, it will still be present in the Change History. This seems an inadequate resolution as I assert that the content should be removed from the change history as well.

How should I proceed?

EDIT: The WIkitree Team has addressed the issue within 6 hours! Very impressive. Retroactively adding the profile in question so that interested Wikiteers can see the fix now that the personally identifiable information has been removed .
WikiTree profile: Edward Ellis
closed with the note: Issue addressed, question answered
in Policy and Style by Jeff Gentry G2G6 Mach 1 (18.6k points)
closed by Jeff Gentry

Thanks for the alert, Jeff. When did this happen? Since March of this year, it should have been impossible to add an email address to a biography text box. See

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Email_Addresses#Email_addresses_in_source_citations.2C_comments.2C_etc.

Sep 2016.

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Can you let the team know about this so that someone can rectify this
by Hilary Gadsby G2G6 Pilot (316k points)
selected by Jeff Gentry
I'll send you the profile via private message.
Just drop the team a message you can find them under help in the menus at the top of the page.
Ahhh, THAT team! Will do.
I would have done this for you but I was greeting new members and this is where I am used to just calling them the Team.
No problem at all. I've already taken care of it and filled them in at the email address you sent me. Thanks.

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