I see the point but honestly I don't see why it is so very undesirable.
Well, I just gave my opinion regarding this practice, to instigate a discussion amongst the editors on site policy about this.
Problem is that if one person does it, others will copy the behavior, as this case shows, and before you know it every one has its full Curruculum Vitae in every page he published here.
It is different in cases where there is a clear relation with the CV you refer to. I also refer to Makromachy from the Megalomachy article, and vice versa, because the one is basically an enlarged version of the other. You (Jean-Louis) also have a progressive series of ever larger games with very similar piece sets. Such a reference is functional and useful.
What I consider undesirable is references (especially long lists of those) to CVs that are not related more to the CV of the article than hundreds of others, just because it happens to be your own invention. So a tell-tale sign is a reference to your own CV, while there are dozens of CVs that are just as similar to the CV of the article, or even more so, to which you don't refer. That a CV is also on, say, a 10x10 board, with a complete FIDE piece set plus a handful of fairies should not be considered a similarity that justifies referral, as there will be hundreds of CVs fitting that description. For that sort of vague similarities we already have the tag system.
We should ask ourselves if we think the site would be better if everyone would provide a complete list of all his inventions on every article he authors. And if that is the case, we should not rely on the authors doing it, but just let the server's article-display script automatically append it to every article. That would be quite easy to do. The script to do it exists already: you can admire its output through the personal page of the author.
The point is that the side builders have decided not to do that, even though plenty of info is automatically added to the text provided by the article author. So apparently we think it is better not to have such info on every article. And if having it on every article significantly detoriates the site, every article it is added to by the author also detoriates the site a bit. So we'd better put a stop to that as early as possible.
Well, I just gave my opinion regarding this practice, to instigate a discussion amongst the editors on site policy about this.
Problem is that if one person does it, others will copy the behavior, as this case shows, and before you know it every one has its full Curruculum Vitae in every page he published here.
It is different in cases where there is a clear relation with the CV you refer to. I also refer to Makromachy from the Megalomachy article, and vice versa, because the one is basically an enlarged version of the other. You (Jean-Louis) also have a progressive series of ever larger games with very similar piece sets. Such a reference is functional and useful.
What I consider undesirable is references (especially long lists of those) to CVs that are not related more to the CV of the article than hundreds of others, just because it happens to be your own invention. So a tell-tale sign is a reference to your own CV, while there are dozens of CVs that are just as similar to the CV of the article, or even more so, to which you don't refer. That a CV is also on, say, a 10x10 board, with a complete FIDE piece set plus a handful of fairies should not be considered a similarity that justifies referral, as there will be hundreds of CVs fitting that description. For that sort of vague similarities we already have the tag system.
We should ask ourselves if we think the site would be better if everyone would provide a complete list of all his inventions on every article he authors. And if that is the case, we should not rely on the authors doing it, but just let the server's article-display script automatically append it to every article. That would be quite easy to do. The script to do it exists already: you can admire its output through the personal page of the author.
The point is that the side builders have decided not to do that, even though plenty of info is automatically added to the text provided by the article author. So apparently we think it is better not to have such info on every article. And if having it on every article significantly detoriates the site, every article it is added to by the author also detoriates the site a bit. So we'd better put a stop to that as early as possible.