User talk:Laurenticwave

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[edit] Conflict of interest

Please take some time to read Wikipedia's policy about conflict of interest in editing articles. Based on your username and substance of your edits to the Anno Birkin article, I would hazard a guess that you're Andrew Birkin or someone else close to the subject, and that poses some challenges to Wikipedia's content requirements. Editing articles about oneself, family members, etc. without stepping on these standards of encyclopedic objectivity requires great care. I haven't seen any obvious problems with neutral point of view, but the policies requiring verifiability and against original research are problematic here. - JasonAQuest (talk) 23:27, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Correct! Could you be a little more specific as to which sentences are problematic for you? I am wholly in agreement with all Wiki's policies, so am happy to correct wherever you suggest.
Specifics are better discussed on the discussion page for the article, but my main concern is the inclusion of citations that refer only to you, rather than to published independent sources. It's a little counterintuitive, but family members aren't considered verifiable and reliable sources for Wikipedia's purposes. For example, there's an article about one of my cousins on Wikipedia. I know some things I could add to it, but there's no way for anyone else to verify them; I could be making them up. (I might even be lying about being his cousin.) On the other hand, if a journalist interviewed me and judged me a credible source and my information believable, and his editor agreed and published it, that would have the credibility of independent authentication, and that could be cited... with the added benefit that someone could come along later and look it up to verify it. Since Wikipedia has no editorial oversight per se, it depends on that being done by its sources. - JasonAQuest (talk) 16:13, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Quite understand, and an entirely reasonable house rule. I have a feeling that both statements about Anno's influences have appeared in print (albeit on my say so, although endorsed by others), and will do my best to track them down. Many thanks.


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Kicks Joy Darkness 2.jpg

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