Kinsella Wiki Entry--Reprise
Well whaddaya know, my wiki entry is back up. Oh, well, yes, I put it back up, after it was deleted by willmcv and others for being vanity, and non-notable. Well, it was not a vanity piece as someone else put it up without my knowledge. As for being non-notable, notice the arguments being made that Palmer's entry is okay because he is notable, by some of the same people who voted to delete my entry. One says he has a large number of publications; mine is larger. Another says he is notable because he is openly gat at Cato; but this is not even on his entry; one would thing one of the more notable things about someone that makes them notable enough to have an entry... would be in that entry. But is "being gay" really notable? In any event, I'm a closeted lesbian trapped in a man's body.
So, I've put up my own entry. Just to see if people vote it down again, despite making arguments to keep Palmer's entry up that, if applied to mine, would probably keep mine up too.
BTW, some Wikinerd sent me a message:
Hi Stephen
Just so you know, it is against policy to create articles about yourself on Wikipedia. As it seems your article is relatively neutral, so you may get away with it. I would say "don't do it again", but I guess that's relatively unlikely. DJ Clayworth 20:40, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
Well, I'm unaware of this policy, but even if it's true, Palmer's entry is obviously written by him, and if it's not, it's written anonymously so it's impossible to tell. I could have gone on anonymously too and made up my post, but I am no coward. If people are not permitted to post their own entries than anonymous entries should be prohibited too.
I really think it's hard to justify not-deleting Palmer's entry if mine is to be deleted. Let's see what they do.
Any readers are welcome to review and edit/improve my own entry, which was kind of quick and dirty.
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Aha: Okay, here is the policy on who is "notable" enough for a wiki biography entry. Given the critieria, it is clear my entry should not have been previously deleted. Note, e.g., it says:
Biographies on the following people may be included in Wikipedia. ...
- Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more.
Oh yeah, baby, I got that one nailed! I don't need to list my legal and libertarian publications yet again, but I have easily exceeded these, many times.
Moreover, there are "Alternate tests" listed that would suffice:
Other tests for inclusion that have been proposed include:
- The professor test -- If the individual is more well known and more published than an average college professor, they can and should be included.
- Verifiability -- Can all information in the article be independently verified now? (some say) 10 years from now?
- Google Test -- Does the subject get lots of hits on Google or another well known search mechanism?
Oh, easy. Google turns up hundreds of entries. The info can easily be verified. I'm more well known and more published than the average college provessor, so my entry "can and should be included."
True, the rules on autobiographies is that they are discouraged; but they are not banned. A couple of comments about this. First, the info I put up is easily verified. Second, an entry was originally put without my involvement; given that I satisfied then as I satisfy now several criteria for "notability," it should never have been taken down. So I am just putting up a version of what was there before. It's more like an edit by the subject, than a new entry by me (the entry is very similar to what was there before, which is now lost down the memory hole--in fact I post it below in case it is deleted again). Finally, the policy ought to discourage anonymously-posted biographies even more than it discourages self-posted (auto)biographies, since someone can post an autobio anonymously, without being honest about it. Palmer's entry is not being deleted (yet), even though it was created anonymously, and appears to very likely be an autobio.
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My entry:
Stephan Kinsella
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
N. Stephan Kinsella (born 1966) is a libertarian writer and attorney. Born in Prairieville, Louisiana, he attended Louisiana State University where he earned MS and BS degrees in electrical engineering, and a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University. He also obtained an LL.M. in international business law at the University of London's King's College London and London School of Economics, where he studied under Rosalyn Higgins (now Judge on the International Court of Justice). He practices law in Texas and is actively involved with libertarian legal and political theory. He has also published a number of scholarly legal articles and books, and has taught as a law professor at South Texas College of Law.
His legal publications include numerous books and articles about patent law, e-commerce law, international law and other topics.
He has also published and lectured on a variety of libertarian topics, and is adjunct sholar of the Mises Institute. His areas of interest include rights theory, Austrian economics, anarcho-capitalist theory, and applications of libertarian principles to legal topics, such as contract theory, inalienability, property law, intellectual property, and punishment theory. He has drawn on his expertise as a practicing patent lawyer to become a leading libertarian opponent of intellectual property laws; his seminal argument Against Intellectual Property has become widely referred to and cited.
Due to his adherence to an originalist interpretation of the Constitution and its federalist principles, he has also disagreed with many other libertarians about the role of the federal courts in reviewing state legislation, such as in his controversial article A Libertarian Defense of ‘Kelo’ and Limited Federal Power.
Books
- International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner's Guide (2005)
- World Online Business Law (2003-present)
- Digest of Commercial Laws of the World (1998-present)
- Trademark Practice and Forms (1998-present)
- Online Contract Formation (2004)
- Protecting Foreign Investment Under International Law: Legal Aspects of Political Risk (1997)
External links
- KinsellaLaw, Stephan Kinsella's legal website
- StephanKinsella.com, Stephan Kinsella's libertarian website
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