From: Jimmy Wales
> There are verifiable facts about me, news
reports
and what-not, but I
> would prefer if there were no article about me, as
a >matter of modesty
and good
taste. I don't see any reason for us to
have a hard-and-fast
rule about this, but would like to encourage a
social meme of similar
modesty from other contributors.
> At a very minimum, it seems most tasteful for
anyone about whom we do
have an entry to recuse themselves from working
on
it.
I think it's reasonable to discourage entries
about
contributors, but I
think it's unreasonable to expect people to recuse
themselves from
working on their own entries. We don't generally
expect people to recuse
themselves from areas in which they are experts. We
should, however,
expect people to be rational and impersonal when
working on their
entries...that is, be held to the same standards of
verifiability and
respect for others' edits.
One question: why is this on the wikien list and not
general wikipedia
list? Are we trying to establish different mores and
guidelines on all
the wikipedia language versions?
This is a good question.
Made me think of something.
There are already some different guidelines between
the different versions. Even when, as it rarely
happen, the topic is common.
Recently, after a good couple of months,
french-speaking people reached a hundred percent
agreement to delete all Daniel C. Boyer pages.
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other times, I see not any consensus, though I am sure
there would be one on en. That means our rules will be
different from yours.
How could a consensus be drawn from this ?
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%E9dia%3APrise_de_d%E9cision%2C_d%E9bloqu…
6 pro, 6 against, 5 neutral.
Consensus in action :-)
And when guidelines are already established on en,
because of your experience, it is probably important
that the other versions learn from you, but perhaps
make their own rules, according to local situation.
Only guidelines or software changes that do not exist
on *any* wikipedia can be honestly discussed together.
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