On Saturday 03 January 2004 12:46, tarquin wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
We don't need a special policy for autobiographies which states that unverifiable biographies are unacceptable, if we already have a policy that all articles must be verifiable. That said, it's justifiable, in meta pages on biography conventions, to ''mention'' that all articles, including biographies, should be verifiable. And it would be a good idea to mention this if there have been problems -- which it seems that there have! But this is not Yet Another Policy ^_^.
Agreed. It's making a page to explain this particular aspect of existing policy. My motivation is that when I directed MRM Parrott to "what WP is not" he said that nothing there prevented him having an article.
I don't really understand what is the problem with autobiographies and why are they more unverifiable then biographies written by someone else. If we write an article about a dead person, for facts on its life we might consult person's autobiography, or biography, and biographies are often in large part written by biographer talking to person about person's life. I don't see how is it different then person writing about itself - it's the same source at the end.