QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 10th November 2009, 8:04am)
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One highly regarded Wikipedia administrator "SlimVirgin" who has made more than 80,000 edits on Wikipedia says that, "We seem increasingly to be dealing with people who are self-promoting, and it would be good if we had a page that prohibited it without exception. On the other hand, we don't want to exclude people who may be experts in something, so the wording would need to be just right. The writing would also need to be tightened generally."
Does this mean she's going to take back all those "barnstars" she gave to David "Shankbone" Miller and Gary "Mantanmoreland" Weiss? Or is that what she means by getting the wording "just right"?
I think she means that although people who are bad at self-promotion should be excluded, experts in self-promotion should be encouraged.
Anyhow, Weiss was not self-promoting, he was bringing about the downfall of the world's banking system and therefore did not have a COI and should be encouraged, and Shankbone was donating all that "taint" for the good of society, not self-promotion. See Somey, you've just got it all wrong.