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Old 07-14-2010, 08:32 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by jaxx6166 View Post
But, in Steve's defense, I have seen a couple of self pub'd authors on Wiki.

I found this guy when I was seeing if my pen name existed on teh interwebs (it does)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alexander_(author)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Robinson

Wonder if I should change my name, don't want to be associated with that guy. :/
From the looks of the history, it looks like both those guys put up their own entries.

The first one keeps editing it under new and ever-changing usernames, who only ever seem to edit just the one article. I'm wondering if his old identities are getting banned and this is his way to keep building up his article, or he just thinks that if it looks like the contribs are coming from different users it'll look totally unlike sockpuppet performance art.

Second guy started up his own article too, and promptly edited a bunch of other popular ones to push his book (and kept misspelling "culture" and "references"), which have since been reverted. He now seems to have caught on to editing anonymously from behind a bare IP address, but the comments on his article's discussion page and in the history will haunt him for life. Or at least until some editor decides to delete him for non-notability.

Whichever one of them shares your name, my condolences.

Incidentally, the official guidelines: Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion; points 4 & 5 address self-promotion and advertising specifically.
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