KreftMM
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Happy editing! SuperMarioOdyssy101 (talk) 15:42, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Right now, I'm finding it very frustrating. Maybe you can provide me with some insight.
- Full disclosure: I am a marketer. I'm working with the Wrights to remove incorrect information from Judith's page, and make sure that correct and current information is available there. I'm NOT trying to use it for promotional purposes, I just don't want her to have FALSE things up there.
- Any insights you can provide would help. KreftMM (talk) 16:41, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
On sources
editYou mentioned you didn't know what sources we prefer, so I thought I might point you to Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Also, when someone mentions a word in all-caps, such as "does not meet AUTHOR", they most of the time mean the page accessible at the WP: shortcut, such as WP:AUTHOR, that leads to Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Creative professionals. You can just type these shortcuts in the search bar and see for yourself. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 16:33, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
Managing your conflict of interest
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Hello, KreftMM. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Judith Sewell Wright, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 17:52, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- For the record, I am stepping out of the revisions to the page. But who makes changes to personal pages if they don't have any relation to the page they're making changes to? Seems to me, this is a recipe for only those who have negative intentions to get their point of view posted.
- Also, the only changes I made were to update books that she had written that hadn't been included yet - and provided links to back that up, so it's not really promotional, just updating data, and to remove information about a court case that had been resolved in her favor, so that it didn't reflect negatively on her. I'm just stating this because I don't want her to suffer for anything I did. KreftMM (talk) 18:15, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there! It looks like you're coming to this from an adversarial position (specifically, that Wikipedia's editors are being adversarial) and I can see why – it really can look like that sometimes!
- May I advise taking a step back and re-reading the text above, from the point of view of it being offered to help you (and Ms Wright) rather than it aiming to stop you from helping?
- The advice above, while it is a list of our many and confusing rules, is how to do what you want to do in a way that means you will have the help of other editors here and your suggested edits will therefore stick. By working within the rules, you'll be helping everyone get this article right.
- If you can look through the message again, and assume that it's offering positive advice rather than bashing you over the head with negativity (and I know that doing that will be hard, communicating by typing on the internet has never ever worked well), then the outcome should be good for Ms Wright, you and Wikipedia's readers. 81.187.192.168 (talk) 18:27, 19 June 2024 (UTC)