[WikiEN-l] Clearer policy on self-written and obscure biographies

[tarquin]

You'd have thought that our current policy list at "What Wikipedia is 
Not" is clear enough on the matter of any old person off the street 
adding an article about themselves to Wikipedia: self-published authors, 
new prophets, and so on.

But with rising awareness of WP, this will be an increasing problem. See 
for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:M.R.M._Parrott

On VFD he author argues that nothing in our policy forbids a biography 
of him, even though we've found only two reviews of his books.
As well as being what we call "non-encyclopedic", these can't be NPOV 
since the facts can't be verified.

Should we write a specific policy page about this, to expand the entry 
on WWisNot, in a similar way to what I did recently for 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research ?