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Junk moved here from Talk:Wilcox-McCandlish law:

[edit] Link to User:SMcCandlish

Someone removed it, and I reverted the edit. People should be able to find out more about me (and Bryce Wilcox - I lost track of him several years ago) - if the "Law" is notable, then surely the people responsible for it are at least half as notable. In the absence of someone creating at least a skeletal article about me (I certainly don't have the vanity/narcissism to do it myself), the wikilink to my User page serves a purpose. I even allow people to e-mail me directly from there if they have any questions about this (or any other article I might be mentioned in, like something about EFF, my book - not worthy of an article in 2006, I assure you, though it was pretty cool in 1997 - online activism, the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign), or whatever. Regardless of the usability/logic reasons, it is clear that User pages are linkable from articles intentionally, to prevent non-'notable' people from creating actual articles about themselves; instead (this is a key point) they are encouraged to create User pages, and to use them in place of articles, which is precisely what I'm doing by "vainly" linking to my barebones User page (well, yeah, it has a lot of pointless user boxes on it because I was bored one night, but it's pretty content-free. The contact info is the point). Ref.: Template:PotentialVanity PS: I can't believe there's not an article on online activism yet. Yeesh. I'll definitely have to rectify that.
— SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 18:29, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

An alternative would be to do some research on Bryce and me and add a small section about us at article bottom. If anyone ever thinks either of us are "notable" enough they can make the sections into articles or whatever. Either way, our names should remain wikilinks one way or another so people can find us. Or me at least.; if anyone has any current contact info for Bryce, please let him know I'd like to get back in touch. Someone suggested to me privately that I should replace the wikilink with a link to my personal homepage. I think that would seem like self-aggrandizing spamlinking. My User page here is VERY barebones and aside from filling it with userboxes because I was bored one night, what little content it has on it is Wiki related. I am not "the" Stanton McCandlish the online activism trailblazer (blah blah whatever) on here; I'm just an editor... and the person to go to, to ask any questions about the veracity of what appears in this particular article, incidentally. PS: Links in articles to User pages are clearly permissible when relevant inside articles; here's the most canonical possible example: Jimbo Wales! — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 16:17, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I've actually re-thought this. I can't find any other examples than the Jimbo Wales one, and he's sort of "special". I don't wnat to be seen as doing something inappropriate. And frankly, no one has asked anything about this article via my Talk page or e-mail, only on the article's Talk page, so the purpose I had in mind for the userspace link is clearly moot.

— SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 13:54, 24 July 2006 (UTC)