Wjpool

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Joe R. Pool

The other editor recently active at the Joe R. Pool article, Eclary444, has claimed to be Joe Pool's granddaughter, and daughter of Wesley J. Pool, whom she has named as the archivist of Joe Pool's records. I am going to go out on a limb here and assume that you are the Wesley J. Pool of whom she spoke, so I will give you the same information I gave her: records you hold in your personal possession are not valid sources for Wikipedia articles. The point of citing sources at Wikipedia is so that other editors may consult those cited sources to verify the content of the article. Since your archives are not published or held in a public facility (like a library), other editors are not free to examine them. Posting images of said archives does not help, because there is no way for another editor to authenticate such images. Please read and understand Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources.

Also, as mentioned in the above welcome message, since you have a close connection to Joe R. Pool, you should not be editing the article at all. Instead, you may make suggestions about changes you would like to see at the article's talk page. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:12, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

I'll reiterate: you should stop editing at Joe R. Pool. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:19, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Copyrights

You may not copy text of newspaper articles verbatim into Wikipedia. Doing so is a violation of the newspapers' copyrights. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:18, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The discussion is about the topic Joe R. Pool. Thank you. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:48, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

Recent edits at Joe R. Pool

In this series of edits to Joe R. Pool, you have attempted to address some of the citation issues in the article. Your edits are still problematic:

1. Several facts are cited to Vander Hill, Bryan. A Biographical Sketch of Joe Pool. Department of History 3363: Dr. Lackman. This citation had been marked as incomplete, because there is insufficient information for other editors to find this work and verify the information. To address this, you changed the citation to read Vander Hill, Bryan. A Biographical Sketch of Joe Pool. Department of History 3363: Dr. Lackman. University of Texas. July 8, 1991. This still doesn't help, as there is still insufficient information for others to find this work. Is it a book in a library? If so, at the very least, an ISBN should be supplied. Is it a journal article? Is it a research paper? (If it is the latter, but it is not a published thesis, then it is not a valid source.)
2. You have cited Letter from Joe Pool to Wayne Aspinall. Chairman of House Interior Committee. U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C. June 14, 1968. Unless this letter is available as an artifact in a public archive (as opposed to one of the artifacts you have retained personally in Joe Pool's memoribilia), it is not a valid source.
3. In the section about Pool's KKK investigations, you have added four citations to a simple sentence that already had two citations. This is called citation overkill, and is not only unnecessary, but actually makes the article seem inauthentic. (As in: if you don't believe these three sources, how about these six others???) Just because you have the clippings doesn't mean you have to use all of them.
4. Ditto for Pool's activities in Viet Nam (except here, you have expanded from 3 to 9 citations!).

I had closed out the discussion I started at the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard. Perhaps I did so too soon? I urge you again, do not continue to edit this article. Make requests at the talk page only. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:06, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

I understand. Thank you. Wjpool (talk) 21:45, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Editing at Joe R. Pool

You have been cautioned, and cautioned again, and brought to the attention of administrators at WP:COIN and yet you will not let it go. Your editing at Joe R. Pool has a conflict of interest, and this shows when you add paragraphs and paragraphs about relatively banal legislation that Pool was involved with. If I need to bring this back to WP:COIN, I will. Please stop editing this article and use the talk page to discuss proposed changes. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 18:36, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

We have asked for many corrections and additions throughout the talk page. Some of which haven't been addressed since August 11. Why is it that these are not being addressed? Wjpool (talk) 15:57, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Seeing as our request aren't being considered and instead ignored to go delete everything we try to contribute, is there someone else that can be the judge of information and contributions to the talk page Joe R. Pool. Wjpool (talk) 16:00, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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