Talk:Stephen Venables

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Why is this page, written by Mr. Venables himself, being protected? Surely we'd all love to write our own Wikipdia definitions, but that's not the purpose of Wikipedia. That Mr. Venables is a repeat rescuee on the mountains, is very, very well documented, including Mr. Venables' own writings. That others, notably Chris Bonington, have had much to say about having to rescue Mr. Venables, is also documented. The famous photo of Mr. Venables in a less than dignified pose on Everest, with a terrified expression on his face, is an icon. In fact. Mr. Venables even has it on his speaker's page:

http://heason.net/HTML/PortfolioDetail/HeasonEventsLecturerPortfolioDetailStephenVenables.htm

That Mr. Venables chose to add a final, and oddly worded paragraph of the tragedy of his son, is open to interpretation. The writer, a prominent climber himself, familiar with all the characters in Mr. Venables' Wikipedia autobiography, and himself a father, simply noted that it struck him as a bit odd bragging about one's son's disease in this matter--bordering on the vulgar. It is obviously not a comment ABOUT MY SON as Mr. Venables rather shrilly phrases it. It's about bringing up one's son in this context and trying to use it to leverage a locked autobiography. All in all, it seems in bad taste to want to write one's own Wikipedia article, especially if one is as controversial a figure as Mr. Venables, and then not allow others to straighten out the facts a bit.