Anthony DiPierro wrote:

Why isn't Wikipedia best served by both? If someone comes across one of your papers and wants to know more about the author, isn't that useful, even if they just find out that the author is no one special? There's clearly a potential benefit, and I just don't see what the negative is. As long as you stick to insisting that everything in the article is easily verifiable, anyway (which is already a rule outside of notability). I suppose you could argue that such an article is best served by a dedicated wiki, one for all authors, for instance. But that would mean either creating a fork or taking all articles on authors out of Wikipedia entirely. The other alternative, to have notable authors in Wikipedia and non-notable ones out of Wikipedia, would likely cause way too many problems in implementation. Taking all articles on authors out of Wikipedia is very unlikely to happen, so you're basically ensuring a fork.

I second all of the above.

- d.