Paul, I believe that statement contradicts the form of the autobiography: if artists are the creator of their own mythology, why shouldn’t that mythology be presented as official biography, if the artist makes that choice?
From: Pall Thayer <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014 at 9:02 PM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Please help me with Wikipedia!! It goes without saying that an article about oneself, written by oneself is not an authoritative article. Yes, you can be an authority on yourself but only for yourself. Your commentary will be inherently introspective. You cant be an authority for others. On May 25, 2014 8:52 PM, "Rob Myers" <[email protected]> wrote: > Randall Packer: >> > >> > I consider writing one¹s own bio on Wikipedia not >> > only critical to making sure the information is accurate, but it is >> actually >> > empowering for the artist to take control of this platform to communicate >> > precisely who they are. Too often artists are at the mercy of curators, >> > editors, and dealers, etc., who think they know the true meaning and spirit >> > of an artist¹s work and identity. In Wikipedia, the artist can say (almost) >> > exactly what needs to be said and how to say it. Not that Wikipedia doesn¹t >> > have rules: it is crucial to cite references, including links to other >> > relevant Wikipedia articles, etc. > > The Wikipedian viewpoint is that editing one's own article is likely to > lead to a conflict of interest or to a non-neutral point of view: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view > >> > A solution that I chose, was to >> > appropriate the biography of another artist, and use it as a structural >> > framework. But from the point on, I keep up my Wikipedia biography as I >> > would a carefully tended garden. >> > >> > If an artist can¹t maintain their own bio on Wikipedia, then the Web is >> > dead. > > Wikipedia strongly recommend against creating or maintaining one's own > article: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography > > If for no other reason than it can be annoying to deal with > wikilawyering deletionists when some n00b doesn't bother doing the five > seconds of Googling it would take to establish notability for you. > > Your article is well written and has strong citations. I've added it to > my watchlist. > > - Rob. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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