On 4/4/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
After a post here mentioned it, I went to WP:COI and WP:AUTO.
These two articles seem to promote the view that you're not supposed to edit an article about yourself.
However, WP:BLP seems to suggest that you can to remove libel or unsourced material, and it's a common refrain to complaints about Wikipedia, "why didn't you just fix the article yourself?"
Can we focus this debate on what we believe the correct situation should be, then update policy to match that?
I don't think much good will come from telling people to fix libel in their own articles. Because a) They shouldn't have to b) It will quickly get confused and sound like you can change *anything* in your own articles c) It will probably cause an argument, especially because it will always be a newcomer who doesn't understand wikipedia, and things will end badly.
It's much better the existing way, where libelees complain to OTRS or something, and something with a clue handles it.
Steve