Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé
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This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and is, therefore, an inappropriate place to post your résumé or curriculum vitae. Doing so violates Wikipedia's policies on ownership of articles —and also, to put it mildly, reflects poorly on your intellect and sense of judgment. |
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Let it be put plainly and simply: if you were so cool, you wouldn't have to post your résumé on Wikipedia. If you were that cool, you'd at least be good enough for Monster.com. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not a place for you to post your résumé. If that much isn't clear, then I seriously doubt that you are the Distinguished Professor of Complicated Stuff at the University of Smartsylvania (and if you are, that speaks volumes about the academic standards at the University of Smartsylvania).
Laying aside the obvious
- Nobody's going to read your résumé on Wikipedia because people come here looking for information about mastodons, JavaScript, and Stephen Colbert, not for people with delusions of grandeur.
- If people do read your résumé, they're not going to hire you, because nobody wants to hire anybody so desperate as to post their résumé on Wikipedia (and, yes, this also applies to those of you looking to get hired by Jimbo).
- If you're not looking for a job and instead are looking for international recognition, you may find it here, but for all of the wrong reasons. Your résumé will get deleted and then all of the newspapers in Smartsylvania will laugh their heads off at you, which in turn will lead to the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse laughing at you, which will make you the laughing stock of the world. (Actually, none of those things will occur, because nobody in this world will know you exist. If you really want international recognition, we recommend actually going out and accomplishing some of those things that you claim to do on your résumé or CV. Then, international recognition will come to you, whether you post your résumé on Wikipedia or not.)
- Wikipedia is, by definition, the "online encyclopedia that anybody can edit". Nobody "mercilessly add and remove important stuff from your CV. And nothing looks worse than "[citation needed]" lying next to awards you've received.
So, seriously. Please don't post your résumé on Wikipedia. Most people don't know it's there and those who do know either don't care (because there's much more interesting
See also
- Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas
- Wikipedia:List of really, really, really stupid article ideas that you really, really, really should not create
- Wikipedia:I wouldn't know him from a hole in the ground
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sameer Abdul Karim Ayyoub, the AfD that inspired this essay.
- Template:Like-resume, a template for tagging articles that read like résumés