[WikiEN-l] Improper speedy taggings

Wed Sep 21 15:45:30 UTC 2005

Worldtraveller wrote:

>Nah, I disagree with that.  I've written several papers in astronomy, and
>a referee's report has even described me as a world leader in my field,
>but I'd hate to see an article about myself.  The specific field I am
>allegedly a world leader in does not even deserve its own article,
>although it gets a mention in [[planetary nebula]] (because I wrote that)
>and one of my papers is cited in [[Cat's Eye Nebula]].
>Wikipedia readers are far better served by a brief mention of my field in
>the appropriate context than they would be by any article on my personal
>contribution to that field, and I suspect the same is true for 90% of
>published academics.

Yeah, but it's pretty well established by now that people don't get
any say in the presence or absence of an article on themselves ;-)

(And this is partly because their judgement of their own notability is
skewed. I think Geogre is needlessly harsh on articles on small rock
bands because of his own time in an indie rock band, for example.)

- d.