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

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Tarquin wrote:

>Toby Bartels wrote:

>>We don't need a special policy for autobiographies
>>which states that unverifiable biographies are unacceptable,
>>if we already have a policy that all articles must be verifiable.
>>...
>>And it would be a good idea to mention this if there have been problems --
>>which it seems that there have!  But this is not Yet Another Policy ^_^.

>Agreed.
>It's making a page to explain this particular aspect of existing policy.
>My motivation is that when I directed MRM Parrott to "what WP is not" he
>said that nothing there prevented him having an article.

I don't think that there ''is'' anything on WWIN that:
* prevents this article; ''and''
* pertains particularly to biographies.
Since the page is long, that might explain why Parrott missed the bits that:
* prevent this article for more generic reasons. ^_^

Perhaps he should be pointed to [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]],
particularly [[#Obscure topics]]?  (This is just ideas on tactics.)


-- Toby

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