I’m one of the people who is a regular editor of Arborwiki.

In general, when I’m looking to put up a page about a person, I do a Google search for something like
“Eli Gallup was *”
or
“John Hieftje is *”
and look for the sort of carefully crafted, lovingly edited professional identity that people sometimes build for themselves. That’s almost always a good start for getting a page that starts with a paragraph that makes sense and that reflects what people say about themselves.

For some people that’s pretty easy to do; for others that’s hard, because they have a complicated life, or because they haven’t published a lot about themselves or had others publish a lot about themselves. And so figuring out how to place someone in context is hard, especially if you didn’t grow up here.

The best way to get an accurate bio entry in Arborwiki is to get an accurate bio printed or written somewhere else on the internet, and then to have the Arborwiki entry quote from it and link to it. The other best way is just to edit the page until it’s better. Unlike Wikipedia, there’s no explicit prohibition on editing your own entry, but there are people who will go in and remove over-the-top marketing language (in business descriptions).

“So who is authorized to write an entry on a person? Someone who is not a friend or supporter?”

The nature of the enterprise is that literally anyone is “authorized” to write or edit any entry.

My suggestion that one not write one’s own entry was not meant to suggest the practice was prohibited, merely that it requires a lot of self-discipline to write about oneself in the detached way one would expect from an encyclopedia entry.

You might have more discipline than the average bear, so don’t let my suggestion dissuade you.

If you feel that there are factual errors in the entry about you, I certainly think you should feel comfortable editing those errors yourself.

As for asking that the entry be removed entirely, the request can certainly be made to ArborWiki administrators. For my part, I think it’d be an obvious gap if there were not an ArborWiki page about Vivienne Armentrout.

Generally, the vast majority of disputes about content on Wiki sites (not just ArborWiki) have resulted in an evolution of consensus about the wording or the presentation of relevant facts in any entry. In the event of an all-out editing war (rare), I’d expect that Matt Hampel would step in for ArborWiki and restore some kind of order.

My name appears in ArborWiki because I was a council candidate. The coverage is not very reflective of my actual experience because it (apparently) was a good-faith effort to extract useful material from my campaign website. I’ve resisted the impulse to edit it. May I ask for it to be removed entirely?