RoxyPaw
Hello. My name is Emilie Holm. I'm Timi 'Grabber' Hansen's daughter, and a self-taught artist. To be honest, I only made a wikipedia account to help with my dad's page. RoxyPaw (talk) 01:36, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
Welcome!
editHello, RoxyPaw, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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before the question. Again, welcome! -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:43, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
- Hi RoxyPaw. I saw your post at User talk:Oshwah#Revoked editing of the page, Timi Hansen, so I've added the above welcome template to your user talk page. The template contains links (the words in blue) to various other Wikipedia policy and guideline pages wish you might find helpful. Some other pages that you might find helpful are Wikipedia:Ownership of content, Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, Wikipedia:Biographies of living people, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Single-purpose accounts. Based upon what you've posted above, you would be considered to have a conflict-of-interest with repsect to anything written about your father on Wikipedia. Although Wikipedia doesn't expressly prohibited conflict-of-interest editing, it does highly discourage it because people who a connected with the subject of any article often have difficulty adhering to Wikipedia's 5 Pillars. Such editors may really have the best of intentions, but their editing might not be in accordance with Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines and their goals might not be compatible with Wikipedia's goals. If you have any questions about any of this, you can ask them below. However, the Wikipedia Teahouse is also a really good place to ask questions about Wikipedia. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:58, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
You should make a website for your dad!
editHi Emilie, I also by chance happened to see your post on Oshwah's talk page. I think it's great that you want to share your stories about your dad. I wanted to suggest that you make a website about him together! You could get maybe "timihansen.dk" or something like that. If it's considered his "official" website, then you can put a link to it in the Wikipedia article. I googled his name and didn't find an official website for him, so I think it's a good idea if you do it. That way you can put all the stories he's shared with you there, for all the people who would be interested.
Wikipedia has a rule that an article can only include information that's been published by "reliable sources", like proper books, newspapers, and so on. That's why you can't put your personal stories in the Wikipedia article. But if they're on his official website, then you can at least put a link to it, even though you can't put the stories in the article unless they get published.
If you find stories or information that is published in books or newspapers, that you think should be added to the Wikipedia article, that's also possible. But it's best if it's checked by an independent editor first. You can put an edit request on the talk page, if you want to do that. Good luck! --IamNotU (talk) 05:54, 6 July 2018 (UTC)