[WikiEN-l] Daniel C. Boyer on wikipedia

Fri Jul 25 04:37:25 UTC 2003

The Daniel C. Boyer bandwagon is getting a bit out of control. Daniel is a 
user on wiki who has an article about himself on wiki. While that seems OK 
as he is a real if rather minor celebrity and artist, his articles relating 
to himself are breeding like rabbits.

17 (yes, 17) redirects to forms of his name - all were put on the Votes for 
deletion page and in cleaning up the page in view of the general agreement 
on the page I deleted them.

He has articles about the company he founded, [[Idealist Press 
International, Ltd]], with some other people, on which we find that he 
designed a special watch for the company. One of his co-directors 
[[Elizabeth M.B. Davis]] has her own wiki page of one line to tell us when 
she resigned from the company, which BTW he listed on [[List of American 
companies]]. His grandfather [[Carl Benjamin Boyer]] gets a page (OK he was 
sorta famous, but the article (surprise, surprise) of course mentions his 
grandson!). Daniel even has a link to the [[Polyvinyl chloride]] (PVC) page 
which I half expected to contain a line stating ''Idealist Press 
International, Ltd, on whose board Elizabeth M.B Davis sat, specially covers 
the books of internationally famous poet, filmmaker and creator of the Echo 
Poems technique, Daniel C. Boyer, with black [[Polyvinyl chloride]].''

Daniel's tendency to . . .  em . . . write about Daniel, his companies, his 
art-form, his former company director, his granddad, himself,  another 
company . . . is getting a tad tedious. Maybe Jimbo might like to ask him to 
try to write a couple of articles not containing the words ''Daniel'', 
''Boyer'' or any of the 17 variants he dreamt up as redirects. He isn't 
doing any major harm, but unless stopped, wiki is in danger of looking like 
a vanity press publishing attempt.

JT

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