On Saturday 03 January 2004 12:46, 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.
That said, it's justifiable, in meta pages on biography conventions,
to ''mention'' that all articles, including biographies, should 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 really understand what is the problem with autobiographies and why are
they more unverifiable then biographies written by someone else. If we write
an article about a dead person, for facts on its life we might consult
person's autobiography, or biography, and biographies are often in large part
written by biographer talking to person about person's life. I don't see how
is it different then person writing about itself - it's the same source at
the end.