Alex - Your experience on Wikipedia was unfortunate, but you should be aware of some of its policies & guidelines regarding creating articles about people, especially oneself: * General notability guideline for biographies: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BIO
* Guideline strongly discouraging writing an article about oneself: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AUTO
A good place to start is <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:YFA> Also, I'm not sure who you encountered while editing, but describing Wikipedia editors or administrators as "wiki police" isn't quite fair. By its very definition, (nearly) all Wikipedia users are welcome and able to monitor and edit articles, tag them if there are concerns, etc. Administrators (who are selected by the community itself) have extra privileges allowing the deleting of articles and blocking users, under strict guidelines. The help pages provide good guidance, if you want to explore further: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
I'm sure Wikipedia could benefit from your participation in the project.
Regards, Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Associate, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm@uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org On Dec 8, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Alex -Vipowernet wrote:
I was not allowed to make a page in Wiki. While many of my computer geeky friends have pages, and I assumed that the work I did in the 80's with the pre-Internet was historic... some wiki police stopped my work saying it looked like a "resume" Odd because I had written a historic piece about my work creating the first e-commerce business and there was no "resume" contents.
Very strange who the self appointed wiki police are. and what their various criteria are for allowing or not allowing content. I lost interest though I stood firm on my entry for the Boston Computer Exchange - which is up presently.
Alex Randall ----- Original Message ----- From: Mathieu O'Neil To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:36 AM Subject: [Air-L] There's an article on me in Wikipedia!
[apologies for cross-posting]
Hi all
In the context of an article on Wikipedia, I am looking for people who have been the subject of an article in this encyclopedia. If you have your own article on Wikipedia, I would be most grateful if you could take the time to answer the following questions. If you know anyone who has been featured Wikipedia, thank you for forwarding these questions to them. If you would like to find out more about this article, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Deadline for answers: 25 December 2008.
Best, Mathieu
-- Questions for people who have a page on Wikipedia (WP) --
1. Is the information on your WP page accurate? (If not, how?) 2. Did you or people you know attempt to modify the content of this page? (What happened?) 3. Has the page had an impact on your life? (If so, what?) 4. Has your opinion of WP changed because of being the subject of a page? (If so, how?) 5. Do you use/contribute to WP? (If so, how?)
6. Name: 7. Country: 8. Occupation:
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