On Wednesday 05 November 2003 16:45, Jimmy Wales wrote:
- GOOD TASTE
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a reference work, not a tool for our own self-promotion. I can easily envision a mocking criticism of us as a non-serious work if we all start writing entries about ourselves. "Of the 1,234 page-length biographies in wikipedia, fully 10% of them are of Wikipedia contributors writing about themselves." Ick.
I think that I've found a loophole: criteria for inclusion of biographies state that anyone who writes for a publication with circulation higher then 5,000, could be included. And when Wikipedia 1.0 gets published... So, perhaps the rule should be changed to "a publication except Wikipedia" ;)