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:Where are you getting this from, about the prohibition against first person? I see first person used throughout hitchwiki, and I find it very useful. Are there community agreed-upon policies and guidelines you are referring to? -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 23:43, 8 May 2013 (CEST)
:: That articles should be written in 3rd person has been the consensus for years now. See e.g. [[Help:Todo|here]]. Hitchwiki is full of tips in the first-person because many hitchhikers sign up for an account and start posting their advice without learning the preferred style first. I and other editors try to give new editors a heads-up when we can, but there's not always someone around to clean up the first-person edits they've already made. First person is decidely '''not''' useful on a wiki site: any article can have multiple editors, so the reader has no idea who "I" refers to. That's why it's better to write in the third person and link to your username. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] ([[User talk:CRCulver|talk]]) 02:28, 9 May 2013 (CEST)
:::I don't see how one edit by one person a few years ago represents consensus. Just because no one changed it doesn't mean there's consensus there. Has there been discussion around this issue? That page, for example, doesn't even have a Talk: page. So there was obviously no discussion there.
:::While you don't see the usefulness of first person on a wiki site, there's room for debate. Certainly all of the editors who create new accounts and edit in the first person seem to disagree with you. -- [[User:Irningston|Irningston]] ([[User talk:Irningston|talk]]) 22:00, 9 May 2013 (CEST)
