On 3/14/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
The reference to Meta was being rejected on account of it being unreliable and on account of it being a "self-reference" (which IMO is not a correct interpretation of the manual of style guideline against self-reference, it's intended simply to keep Wikipedia's contents location-neutral in case someone else hosts it). Even the old [[WP:RS]] guideline explicitly allows this sort of thing; "Self-published material, whether published online or as a book or pamphlet, may be used as a primary source of information about the author or the material itself, so long as there is no reasonable doubt who wrote the material"
The self-ref rule in this case basically should be interpreted as "don't give that diff special authority just because it was made on Wikipedia".[1] Would you have accepted a diff made on pokemonwiki.com by a user who seriously appeared to be her? (a serious question)
Steve [1] Though I guess since she's a Wikipedia user, perhaps there is a special authority due to it being her "home ground" so to speak.