Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Having said all this, I think there _is_ a potential problem with "vanity biographies," but this is really just a special case under Wikipedia's NPOV policy. It might be a good idea to have a policy against people _creating_ biographies of themselves, even though this would be impossible in practice to enforce.
I guess we have to distinguish between cases:
Case 1: a person about whom we'd write an article anyway. In this case, we'd perhaps be wary of NPOV problems. If the person is just adding information, this should be fine. Case 2: a person about whom we *wouldn't* write an article. This is the "vanity biography". It's this I was alluding to.
Anyway, it seems we have a couple of pages on this already http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Probably_not_famous_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Auto-biography
They need a bit of cleaning up though