On Thu, 22 May 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
I'm definitely with Cunc here on both counts. I don't have a problem with anyone being both a contributer and a subject--we've already had that case before, and it's no problem as long as the subject understands that the article about him in the main wikipedia space is not his personal page, and may be edited by others in ways he doesn't like.
I've been thinking about this myself. I certainly don't think that noteworthy people should be excluded just because they are also Wikipedians, but I can see that people might not trust people's edits to articles about themselves, so I think maybe we should discourage people from making such edits. Quite apart from the NPOV issue, I think we should only include information which is verifiable from publically available sources, and if people edit articles about themselves, they are likely to include things which no-one else can check.
And on the same subject, I think that the founders of the world's largest open content encyclopaedia could do with having their own articles. Would it be possible to make [[Jimbo Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] into articles instead of redirects to their user pages, or would that just mess everything up?
Oliver
+-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199@ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+