Actually, it is reasonable and appropriate to have a 'published works' section in a biographic article, as many do. The works of a person can quite literallly constitute a large component of their life, since as you would know, an article or book is but the end result of many hours, months or years of effort. This makes it in no way inappropriate or insignificant. I've been culling my library for over a year now, and am almost at an end. Many people have benefited from books and journals I've sold or given away (although most photocopied articles and book chapters went into the bin, sometimes after being cited in Wikipedia, that itself accounting for less than 5 %  of the material). To the beneficiaries, it's but a fortuitous and effortless windfall, without the months and indeed years tracking down contemporary and out-of-print material from around the world and synthesising it in various ways, or the financial effort this entailed. So publications sections say something significant in a biography, without even needing elaboration. They do the prose equivalent of a picture: they paint a thousand words in but a list.