[WikiEN-l] Articles about ourselves - WikiEN-l

From: Jimmy Wales

There are verifiable facts about me, news reports

and what-not, but I

would prefer if there were no article about me, as

a >matter of modesty

and good taste. I don't see any reason for us to

have a hard-and-fast

rule about this, but would like to encourage a

social meme of similar

modesty from other contributors.

At a very minimum, it seems most tasteful for

anyone about whom we do

have an entry to recuse themselves from working on

it.

I think it's reasonable to discourage entries about contributors, but I think it's unreasonable to expect people to recuse themselves from working on their own entries. We don't generally expect people to recuse themselves from areas in which they are experts. We should, however, expect people to be rational and impersonal when working on their entries...that is, be held to the same standards of verifiability and respect for others' edits.

One question: why is this on the wikien list and not general wikipedia list? Are we trying to establish different mores and guidelines on all the wikipedia language versions?

This is a good question.

Made me think of something.

There are already some different guidelines between the different versions. Even when, as it rarely happen, the topic is common.

Recently, after a good couple of months, french-speaking people reached a hundred percent agreement to delete all Daniel C. Boyer pages.

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other times, I see not any consensus, though I am sure there would be one on en. That means our rules will be different from yours.

How could a consensus be drawn from this ?

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%E9dia%3APrise_de_d%E9cision%2C_d%E9bloque...

6 pro, 6 against, 5 neutral.

Consensus in action :-)

And when guidelines are already established on en, because of your experience, it is probably important that the other versions learn from you, but perhaps make their own rules, according to local situation.

Only guidelines or software changes that do not exist on *any* wikipedia can be honestly discussed together.

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