Vanity page: Difference between revisions

A '''vanity page''' is a page that a {{tag|People|person}} posts for promotion of them-self, their company, their ideas, etc. Essentially they use the [[wiki]] as a free {{W|vanity press}}.  A page whose content is [[off-topic]] is particularly susceptible to being viewed as a vanity page.  [[Main]] space content is also often more closely regulated than [[user]] space.

Such pages are sometimes deleted as [[spam]], but norms differ from one wiki site to another. [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] clearly {{W|Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a blog, web hosting service, social networking service, or memorial site|states}} that it is not a free web host, and that vanity content will therefore be deleted.  For one thing, vanity pages are deemed to manifest a {{W|conflict of interest}}.  Other sites are willing to be more '[[:Category:Facebook|Facebooky]]', and to welcome vanity pages as potentially useful {{W|user-generated content}}, so long as there is an actual human being who has taken enough interest in that particular wiki to post his content, rather than a bot advertising generic erectile dysfunction remedies.  The idea may be that the user has an incentive to cross-promote the {{tag|wiki}} as a way of drawing further attention to his content.