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
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| Oliver Pereira |
| Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science |
| University of Southampton |
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