[WikiEN-l] Re: Articles about ourselves

Wed Nov 5 19:55:25 UTC 2003

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 16:45, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> 3.  GOOD TASTE
>
> Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a reference work, not a tool for our own
> self-promotion.  I can easily envision a mocking criticism of us as a
> non-serious work if we all start writing entries about ourselves.  "Of
> the 1,234 page-length biographies in wikipedia, fully 10% of them are
> of Wikipedia contributors writing about themselves."  Ick.

I think that I've found a loophole: criteria for inclusion of biographies 
state that anyone who writes for a publication with circulation higher then 
5,000, could be included. And when Wikipedia 1.0 gets published... So, 
perhaps the rule should be changed to "a publication except Wikipedia" ;)