Yesterday, blogger Rogers Cadenhead revealed in Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1 that "Another person obsessively monitoring his own biography is Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who has edited it frequently, removing references to a credited 'co-founder' of the encyclopedia and obscuring the nature of a pornographic web site he once published."
The story has now been taken up by Wired News, which reports that "Wales acknowledged he's made changes to his bio, but said the edits were made to correct factual errors and provide a more rounded version of events."
"People shouldn't do it, including me," he said. "I wish I hadn't done it. It's in poor taste.... People have a lot of information about themselves but staying objective is difficult. That's the trade-off in editing entries about yourself.... If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight."
As the story points out: " Wikipedia's own guidelines caution against editing your own bio as it 'can open the door to rather immature behavior and loss of dignity'."
