Talk:Pico Iyer

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I'm sorry that my addition about the school chess team was deleted. I thought it was sufficiently interesting. Maybe it is not strictly verifiable; I could verify it, but it would be a lot of bother, and anyway I do not think it contravenes the spirit of the verifiability guidelines. Viewfinder 03:52, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Autobiographical writing

I find the tone of the writing in this article to be a little autobiographical (and not particularly WP:NPOV). I applaud Mr. Iyer for noting that he made changes to the article himself, but the official Wikipedia policy toward autobiographical changes to articles requires that the subject of the article request these changes through the article's talk page. See Wikipedia:Autobiography. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.108.108.193 (talk • contribs) .

In theory, you are right, but in practice, I do not think any breach of the spirit of Wikipedia's guidelines has occurred. I do not think the edits by Mr Iyer have made the article into any more of a eulogy than it already was. If editors who are merely improving the accuracy of articles about themselves are expected to use the above mentioned talk page procedure, it will discourage them from making such improvements, and that would not be good. Viewfinder 08:14, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I removed the NPOV tag, this article is perfectly fine Appalachiangirl 00:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)