----- Original Message ----- From: "tarquin" tarquin@planetunreal.com
My point was that it's a terrible idea. This guy MRM Parrott is basically abusing the open nature of Wikipedia and using it as a platform for self-promotion.
In short: I would leave autobiographies growing alone without particular rules. I think the pov problem is not so different than in other cases. (In fact, it's easyier to address for autobio.) I don't think self-promotion is efficient on Wikipedia.
It is obvious that this guy is using Wikipedia for self-satisfaction while writing his own autobiography, and Wikipedia probably wouldn't work without this powerful self-fuelling system, but how could this "promotion" have the sligthest efficiency? One article in Wikipedia in an ant in the ant hill. If he wants to promote himself, he'd better go on the streets and do a naked headstand, or simply troll the usenet (where many readers will see his prose without having to ''look for'' it).
If I were God, I would gently remove him for list of ethicist, but leave him in list of persons (already done by someone else). I would leave him his page, but remove existing pov-erties if any.
Someone said here or somewhere that Wikipedia have no roof and no walls. If there is list of programmers, there is maybe a list of unreal programmers. If you have released a software for unreal, your name is to be on this list. If your name is on the list, it should (have to?) be a wikilink. If there is an empty wikilink, it means that an article has to be written, by anyone including you.
If you or Mr Parrott are stupid enough (I know you are not, I'm just weaving the thread) to write an autobiography that is obviously biaised, and can't retain yourself from stating that unreal or post-modernism is the best thing in the world because you feel better after saying that on something that matters to you, then it is likely that you will not be more neutral in contributing on [[unreal]] or [[post-modernism]] than on your own bio page (even worse: people will pay less attention on your edits). (Sorry for the length of previous sentence)
Ruimu