Geoff Burling wrote
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Ray Saintonge wrote:
For some the recognition and ownership of their efforts is important. I've remarked how on some user pages there is a very long list of the articles on which they have worked. They are often dilligent about keeping it up to date. When they stop keeping it up the list it's a good sign that they have begun learning to submerge their ego.
While I agree with you, Ray, that it's a function of ego, I think at least some editors keep a list of articles on their Talk page to prove that they are making credible contributions to Wikipedia.
Ray's comments are pretty good nonsense. One can perfectly well 'submerge ego' - edit as an anon, for example - without thereby contributing much to the community. One can also have a personality, without making a cult of it, let's say. Mutual recognition mostly helps rather than hinders.
I don't know. In the past when I've had the time, I would sometimes review the list of contributions of other editors whose work or erudition I admired.
Me too. There are editors whose brag-lists I check, to see what has been created in an area of interest. This is a perfectly valid reason for those lists being there.
Charles