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

Sat Jan 3 21:50:00 UTC 2004

Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>I don't really understand what is the problem with 
>autobiographies and why are they more unverifiable 
>then biographies written by someone else. 

Because Wikipedia is not a primary source. Once and /if/ that person is able 
to get a real publisher to publish their autobiography, then and /only/ then 
do we use their autobiography as a source. 

We need some sort of filter. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)