[WikiEN-l] iCorrect

[Sarah]

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Sarah <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The requirements are good if people apply them properly.
>> Self-published material by living persons is allowed in their bios, so
>> long as -- we know they wrote it; it's not unduly self-serving; and
>> they're talking about themselves, not others. See [[WP:SPS]] and
>> [[WP:BLPSPS]].

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 20:39, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> The real problem is that people are perfectly willing to lie about
> themselves. "I never slept with that woman." "I don't fund the Tea Party."
> "I'm not a hypocrite." etc. etc.
>

That's okay. The point is that Wikipedia allows living people to offer
a correction -- based on their website, blog, or some other
self-published place -- so long as they talk only about themselves and
don't create a BLP issue about some other person. Whether anyone
accepts what they say as true is a separate issue.

So instead of spending $1,000, all they have to do is post what they
want to say on a free blog, then we can use that as a source in their
BLPs, within reason and within these limitations --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SELFPUB#Self-published_and_questionable_sources_as_sources_on_themselves

Sarah