[WikiEN-l] Re: Clearer policy on self-written and obscure biographies

Thu Jan 1 18:40:58 UTC 2004

I think this point of view problem is of the essence for Wikipedia. By
definition what you write about yourself is simply not NPOV. And if there is
any serious criticisms to be made (actually unusual for ordinary people) the
trouble starts.

I think Wikipedia is just not set up to deal with this and most people would
not want it to be.

Fred

> From: Sheldon Rampton <sheldon.rampton at verizon.net>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 12:18:13 -0600
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: Clearer policy on self-written and obscure biographies
> 
> (3) Perhaps the best argument against self-written biographies is
> that we all have a strong point of view about ourselves. There might
> be a problem with someone inserting a passionately slanted biography
> about himself and then adamantly defending it against all contrary
> points of view. However, I don't see any evidence that this is a
> worse problem than other POV conflicts that occur on Wikipedia, and
> in practice thus far it seems to be rare.