Jimbo wrote:
At a very minimum, it seems most tasteful for anyone about whom we do have an entry to recuse themselves from working on it.
Um...I've done some edits to the Wikipedia article about me (which was originally created by Ed Poor).
I don't see how this is inappropriate. I arguably have a "conflict of interest" in what I write about myself, but on the other hand, I know quite a bit about the topic. Anyway, there's nothing in the Wikipedia rules to prohibit people with conflicts of interest from contributing. We don't ask people who work for drug companies to recuse themselves from posting information about health-related topics. The ethos here is that people are allowed to have their own POV but are expected to work constructively with others in arriving at articles that are NPOV (insofar as that is attainable).
In the case of the article about myself, both Ed Poor and I have strong (and differing) opinions on the topic, but I don't have any problem with the role he has played in editing my bio, and I haven't seen him express any objections to the role I've played myself.
I'm mentioning this now partly as a heads-up so that if anyone DOES object to the way I've contributed to my own article, they should feel invited to fix it the usual wiki way -- by making whatever revisions they feel are appropriate. Here's the URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Rampton