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What's the easiest way to get an article about myself on Wikipedia? (links.hackliberty.org)

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You could try to get Jodie Foster to notice you in some newsworthy way.

You could assassinate Putin, you would even get a statue and a park in your name.

Start a band and do that until you get on the billboards, do an interview and casually eat leftovers out of a Tupperware while wearing a possum costume with a sash that says "John Locke was right" and refuse to elaborate.

Liberate East Timor.

End global climate change.

Become a YouTube sensation with your Vlogs detailing every load of laundry you do while singing dubstep remixes of Chinese translated Yugoslavian nursery rhymes.

Invade tik-tok with clips of you screaming at inanimate objects with googley eyes on them, they aren't even your real father.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

End global climate change

I feel like you missed OP's word "easiest"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a skill issue, kids these days don't want to do hard work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You know all about death and equity, now the kids can learn about sweat equity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That will come in handy due to all the warming their generation is just letting happen due to their poor work ethic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sweaquity?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some of these suggestions are genuinely genius

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There is a fine line between genius and insanity.

I always say I can walk that line no problem, but the arresting officer always disagrees.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was a time when the page for list of serial killers had a banner on it asking users to expand it. That's one avenue.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Oh, I'm DEFINATELY one of those!!!

Yeah, fruit loops, cinnemon toast crunch, frosted flakes......hell, I'll even get down with some raisin bran, and kill that bowl!!!

.......is that not what we're talking about?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Do something “Notable” then add yourself.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

If it wasn't for this rule, Wikipedia could have become myspace.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

also isn't there a rule you can't add your own page? even if you do something notable?.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

The main problem with adding your own page is ensuring that the "no original research" rule is followed. In principle, everything on Wikipedia should be verifiable by third parties so they can check it. So if you write an article about yourself and say "Their dog's name is Chesterfield" there needs to be some kind of external source that other editors can use to check whether that's true. People writing about themselves often overlook that sort of thing. A classic example is a problem Philip Roth had trying to correct a Wikipedia article about a book he'd written, Wikipedia can't simply "take his word for it."

The other major problem is the "neutral point of view" rule. It's very difficult to write about yourself in a neutral manner so it's a safe assumption to scrutinize the neutrality of one's own edits about oneself very closely.

Probably the best way to go if you're notable is to ensure that you've got a detailed biography of yourself published somewhere and then point Wikipedia editors at it. And don't get possessive about your Wikipedia article, it's likely going to end up saying something you didn't want it to say and there's not a lot you can do about that if it's within their rules.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How would they know? Wikipedia doesn't require proof of identity to become an editor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

yeah I'm not sure but I remember a story about Wikipedia busting a company for making edits based on IP. but also it wouldn't be extremely hard to write a pages in yourself that was neutral point of view amd not using self published sources as you would unconsciously put in content from your recollection of events vs publishers accounts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ABiographies_of_living_persons?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Notability seems key. I used to build a software project that was pretty well-known, but I was not. I had a page on Wikipedia for about an hour, I think. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Commit a high profile crime.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Becoming a victim of one also works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yup that's the easiest!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eat the Liberty Bell

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I ate the Taco Bell. Is that good enough?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It’s probably a euphemism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is an interesting question but it also made me ponder something related. It makes sense for Wikipedia to focus on only notable people, but why not create a WikePeople or something that aims to be comprehensive about every person we can find information on? Or does something like this exist already?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is, like, textbook dystopian. Most people value their privacy at least to some extent and probably wouldn't take kindly to being documented in a public central database largely outside of their control.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

True I guess maybe it should be opt in although honestly I think online privacy isn’t going to be all that possible going forward. Depends on how strict the government wants to be but it’s pretty hard to control.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Facebook and LinkedIn sort of do this and they are complete shitshows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right but I was thinking with a similar rigor and citation system as with Wikipedia. So it’s pretty different in practice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I see what you mean, I think. It would be convenient to be able to look people up in a modern equivalent of "Who's Who" in a central location, instead of trying to find people scattered all over the web. However, I wouldn't want to be on there myself, and would worry employers would make it mandatory. Some employers already reject candidates for having no social media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

A valid concern. I was more thinking it would be interesting if to have a comprehensive biographical database for people who have died. That way they won’t be forgotten as most people of the past have been. But I’m not sure how to create that without violating the privacy of the living.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

With genealogy. But living people are [hidden].

It'll be the next ancestry.com !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Who's who

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You know every Wikipedia user has a user page(s) they can put whatever they like on? It’s not in the article namespace, but if you just want to put info about yourself somewhere on Wikipedia that’s the easiest way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Worth noting, however, that there are also rules on using one's user page as a promotional piece. It's much more loose obviously than the criteria for what goes in an article, but you absolutely will get smacked if you use your user page exclusively for advertising.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Easiest way is to die a noteworthy death

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Aim for the volcano...

...or the bushes.
I'm not a doctor or lawyer or wiki moderator.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Create it and cite publically available sources.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Wikipedia nerds are way too obsessive. They’ll delete it unless the person is noteworthy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Depends on who you are.

If I wanted to, I could probably get an article about me on there within about a week — I know some editors, and have third party documentation of me on the Internet going back over 30 years. So I’d just have to ask someone to do a writeup, pointing to the notable things I’ve done.

However, I prefer anonymity so it’s unlikely I’d do that.

All it would take is one notable contribution to popular culture to get yourself added.

Easiest way to start if you’re an absolute Internet Nobody would be to get yourself written up by a local newspaper. Then do a bit of SEO so that popular online sites link to things about you and what you’ve done. Then get a few other people to start asking Wikipedia editors why they can’t find out anything about you on Wikipedia when you’re all over the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Time was you could just post one, but then all the teachers had to be like “Wikipedia isn’t a source” so society decided to say “fuck you, teach.”

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

UIm I guess message the mods to let you become a poster or whatever and just write the living shit out of yourself. Then use words that link to others and boom you are golden.