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Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 20, 2005 @07:45AM from the poor-choices dept.

Carnildo writes "Wired News reports that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has edited his own entry in the online encyclopedia at least 18 times, in violation of Wikipedia's policy on autobiography. Edits included removing phrases describing Larry Sanger as a co-founder of Wikipedia, and changing phrasing describing Bomis.com, another of Wales' sites, as a pornography site."

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Re:Exactly by ak3ldama · 2005-12-20 09:06 · Score: 0, Redundant

me too!

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Re:Write vs Edit by tomhudson · 2005-12-20 10:22 · Score: 1, Redundant

It CAN'T, by definition, apply to an autobiography, only a biography.
That's why I included a definition of an autobiography.
The second one is a more particular case of writing about subjects in which you are personally involved, in this case the subject being "your own life". Got it?
Nobody else, by definition, can write an "autobiography" of "your own life". They can only write a biography. I got it. So did the moderators. Sorry, but you didn't.