> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Sarah <slimvir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The requirements are good if people apply them properly. >> Self-published material by living persons is allowed in their bios, so >> long as -- we know they wrote it; it's not unduly self-serving; and >> they're talking about themselves, not others. See [[WP:SPS]] and >> [[WP:BLPSPS]].
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 20:39, The Cunctator <cuncta...@gmail.com> wrote: > The real problem is that people are perfectly willing to lie about > themselves. "I never slept with that woman." "I don't fund the Tea Party." > "I'm not a hypocrite." etc. etc. > That's okay. The point is that Wikipedia allows living people to offer a correction -- based on their website, blog, or some other self-published place -- so long as they talk only about themselves and don't create a BLP issue about some other person. Whether anyone accepts what they say as true is a separate issue. So instead of spending $1,000, all they have to do is post what they want to say on a free blog, then we can use that as a source in their BLPs, within reason and within these limitations -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SELFPUB#Self-published_and_questionable_sources_as_sources_on_themselves Sarah _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
