Jimbo wrote:

Ed Poor removed that line with the comment "(moved self-serving ... text to talk)". And of course since then, famously, you two have been at each others throats.

I'm almost certain that would have happended even if Mr. Rampton did not have an article. Ed and Sheldon's politics are very much opposed to one another (in an already almost hostile way) and they have clashed on several different articles.

Let me say it another way -- it isn't so much the conflict-of-interest that's a problem, it's that personal courtesy prevents people from editing an article about you that you've edited yourself, with the result being an entry that is not encyclopedic.

Personal courtesy be dammed! If it is in the article space then it is fair game for NPOVing and fact-checking (in no way should the same courtesy extended to user pages be transferable to the article space just because the user happens to be famous enough for an article). Also, the very fact that a person who is very closely involved with the subject in a POV way has edited the article sends POV-warning signals to me. So if I saw somebody editing their own article, then I would be extra suspicious of their edits.

But that is just me.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)