__/ [ Peter Kai Jensen ] on Monday 26 February 2007 12:43 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Indeed. I like Wikipedia and edit it from time to time, so prefer it
>>> not be used for this kind of crud. Hence the nomination. If the
>>> consensus is to keep it, then so be it. However, it doesn't exactly
>>> look like that will be happening.
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>> There's a Wikipedia policy which says that people are not permitted to
>> create or even touch their own biography.
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> Well, it's definitely discouraged, since it's unlikely that one can
> remain sufficiently neutral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:COI and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AB are the documents detailing the rules
> for this particular situation. That being said, slander is disallowed
> and if you find that in your biography it's no problem to remove it.
> Adding something new is also possible if you remember to cite reliable
> sources. It's generally safer to wait for someone else to do it,
> though.
When Jimmy Wales cleaned up his bio (some porn sites affiliation, IIRC) he
got caught and there was a storm in a teacup over this. Of course, more
recently he slammed Microsoft who paid people for edits (who knows how many
times they didn't get caught!). WP has been losing credibility when it
became more popular. Like all great things, SPAM (or anything that's
motivates by money) ruins it. The same rules applies to politics, even model
democracies.
Can't recall who said it, but Web 2.0 is everything that can be spammed.
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