All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII

[Bob Schroeck]

Hmmmmm...

When I find a page written by the creator of the work being described, I add this banner to it:
{{cleanup|The original version of this article was written by the writer of the work being discussed. [[Death of the Author|Other viewpoints are requested]].}}
Thus showing that there's a bias in play.

<nod> I've cut'n'pasted that very banner into all of his work pages.

Since there is a bias in play, I would be hesitant to accept a recommendation by the work's author. That statement is essentially "Hey, look at what I did!"

So... while I think that a work page created by the creator of the work is okay as long as it's identified as such, a recommendation of a work by the creator of the work goes too far into Shameless Self Promoter, IMHO.

Unless someone objects, then, I'll nuke that rec tomorrow, and modify the master rec page template to note that recommendations by the authors are not accepted.