On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I added a simple, straightforward page for myself, DJ lotu5, so that I > could help expand the knowledge about mixed reality performance art in > wikipedia
You don't need an entry in Wikipedia about yourself in order to add information to another page. > Well, apparently you're not allowed to represent yourself on wikipedia Yes that's to avoid vanity pages and propaganda pages. It's a good rule but it gets silly when the person the page is about can't edit it despite it being wrong. > I think this does a great job of > showing what kind of knowledge Wikipedia actually contains, knowledge > gained from mass media sources. Sadly this is true. The self-selected editors at Wikipedia often seem unable to find or recognise sources for citations that fall outside of the mainstream press or the geek press . I think that the solution to this is for those of us who understand new media art (etc.) to *organise* on Wikipedia and to help prepare articles about new media art (etc.) to survive deletion reviews. > Apparently, I'm a case of a "non-notable autobiography". Thanks, Wikipedia. Just saying "I can't Google person X" isn't grounds for deletion if they have other published secondary sources that refer to them. "When using Google to help establish the notability of a topic, evaluate the quality, not the quantity, of the links." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people) - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
