Aaron Conners on Wikipedia

I doubt much of Wikipedia's page contents was put there by the people the pages describe. Or if they did create a page, for the marketing/advertising exploitation factor, they would probably rely on fans to expand it and make it come alive. Wikipedia is a community-based invention and you can pretty much guarantee that as a result most of the content is going to be put there by fans. Its what Wikipedia is both celebrated for and criticised for, the fact its by the people for the people, rather than a coporate invention. If there isn't much of a fanbase for something then more often than not no page is ever seen for it on Wikipedia or its just a 'stub' (which means very little info available). Knuckles the Echidna therefore has more of a page than Tex Murphy or any of the other Tex Murphy team because lets face it, the Sonic the Hedgehog series has a bigger and more prolific fanbase and the Wikipedia effort demonstrates that. Its just more a thing that web-savvy fans would do.

Anyway most of Wikipedia is made up of info that the celeberities/authors/etc. have already made available elsewhere. And Wikipedia articles can be edited by anyone so anything 'bad' is usually caught by the Wiki police... and they have gotten pretty strict over the years. I think a page for Aaron would just elaborate on his work and achievements etc. There isnt much else info out there anyway to be put on Wikipedia and Wikipedia isnt about assumptions, just facts, hence why theyve pretty much banned adding a lot of purely fan-based stuff. They frown on fan-based assumptions heavily. Even if they someone did it would be a waste of time, the info can and would be taken down off Wikipedia by fans if the person the page described didnt want that info up.

I think Tex could do with more of a page to be honest. I'm just not really a writer and I've been put off Wikipedia a bit by some of the edit dramas/over-policing. Wikipedia are trying to promote the idea they can be a totally valued source of info despite being created and edited by the voluntary community and fans. And some changes are for the better, others are debated sometimes as being too strict.

IMDB is the same sometimes. Although its a little less bloated because aspects require more access (or more money) to go to town with on edits, the number of slipups have it seem unreliable to some.

And personally I think privacy is a very important thing and Googling Aaron's name doesn't turn up as much as I thought it would and thats probably a good thing. Some think it over-paranoid, but I think its very important to be careful about what you put out on the internet.