On 11/12/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
... Basically, it represents the viewpoint (largely true in the past) that most such people who come to Wikipedia are crackpots or scarcely notable. Our notability/notoriety has now gone beyond that, and I suspect we will see much more of this in the future.
I think this is where there is a place for a distinction between those who start articles about themselves, and those who merely contribute to articles about themselves. We should probably discourage people starting autobiographies, but if someone else considers a person notable enough for an article, then they should certainly be allowed to edit, with the caveat that the ordinary rules against original research and unverifiability apply against them also, and will probably be policed more strictly.
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com