On 22/04/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
Guideline, pretty sure.
Yep, [[WP:AUTO]]. IMHO we'd be better off with a strict "don't edit your own article" policy, telling people to suggest changes on the talk page. One reason is that by editing the page directly, you reduce the ability of other people to shape your text for NPOV without offending you. For example, you add the sentence "Joe Bloggs's latest film enjoyed considerable success in Asia and Australia". A separate author might simple have written "Joe Bloggs' latest film was released in Asia and Australia", but they wouldn't necessarily want to start a discussion over it...
Basically, any time you edit your article directly, your feelings risk being hurt, and that's going to affect the way other users behave. By keeping you out of the article altogether, the normal wikipedia processes can function better, while you provide input from the sidelines.
Steve