DavidESpiro

September 2009

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, as you did at David E. Spiro. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. --Dynaflow babble 19:41, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page David E. Spiro has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. RaseaC (talk) 19:50, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Removing the tags doesn't help. Rich Farmbrough, 19:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC).

Background

Jeff Hart, who is head of the International Political Economy section of the International Studies Association contacted selected scholars and asked them to add their names to the entry "International Political Economy" on wikipedia. I added my name at his request, and wrote a brief professional biography to link to the entry. Both were tagged and I've since removed both. I understand why it is important to highlight self-referential entries. And I've recommended to Prof. Hart that he make the changes in wikipedia himself. The net result of all this is that while the rule on self-reference is understandable, in this case it has not helped the community of International Political Economy scholars build a meaningful wikipedia entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidESpiro (talk • contribs)