User talk:Emonxie

Ian, you hadn't established a user page yet, so I took the liberty of setting up one by copying the text of the article you started.

Vanity pages are considered taboo by most Wikipedians with a usual rule of thumb being that the author shouldn't be the subject of their own article. Nor should the author be someone intimate with the subject and further implied that they shouldn't enlist someone else to write about them either. There is still a lot of debate on that topic, so mostly it falls to people to make good choices with regards to what does or does not merit inclusion in an encyclopedia.

Eventually, most authors keep to listing details about themselves on their user page.

Having been involved in a few of these types of things before (one protracted debacle eventually driving me away from the WP project altogether), I figured I'd just give a friend the heads-up before someone tosses it on WP:VFD.

My suggestions:

• Move the entire article to your user page

Failing that, the other way to protect it from delete is to:

• Restrict info to only notable acheivments (published works), etc.
• Information that would be interesting to someone not especially interested in you to begin with
  • i.e. articles shouldn't look like resumés

Also, important to keep the article Neutral Point of View. So you wouldn't inject humor—such as a description of the subject as "hack"—into the article.

--IsaacBarry 07:06, 9 May 2005 (UTC)