TwitterPoll: Is it appropriate for us to edit wiki-based historic/biographic that is incorrect or missing our significant contributions?
Oct 27, 2012 · 11:20 PM UTC
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@johnfoliot Yeah, but editing information about oneself feels icky to me.
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@mollydotcom I'd find it OK if you mentioned errors & omissions to a good but critical friend whom you can trust to edit as appropriate.
@mollydotcom If the goal is to have correct info there, then it doesn't matter who puts it in. Sometimes anecdotes trump citations.
@mollydotcom Only if you log in as "a different girl" if you know what I mean.
@mollydotcom so long as you're willing to be challenged for supporting citations. They did that when Harlan Ellison corrected his bio.
@mollydotcom (And yeah, your Wikipedia page needs some love; I corrected it years back, but didn't have the energy to fix it properly! :( )
@mollydotcom The Wikipedians frown upon self-editing. Then again, many of them are twats.
