Talk:Silvio Funtowicz

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Removed online links; please let me know if this is now OK. User:Saltean

Hi, Saltean. I'd say the Poem/Video/Audio sections are still external links. Perhaps could be merged with that section? As an aside, you can use ~~~~ to automatically sign your posts on Talk pages. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:17, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kj cheetham. I regrouped the sections with external links under the section 'external links' as you suggested. As per Prof. Funtowicz being one of my co-authors, which is clearly the case, what would you like me to do? My impression is that what I wrote is rather factual. If I may say, at my age the list of people I wrote papers with is rather long ... Thanks for any advice. Andrea Saltelli 14:28, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Saltean. That's probably a step in the right direction, thank you. When working on an article of someone you personally know you need to to declare it somewhere, such as the Talk page or your own userpage. I've already tagged this Talk page with you as a connected contributor. The guidelines at WP:COISELF say it's generally best to refrain from editing directly though. Regarding citing your own papers, the only official advice I could find was at WP:SELFCITE. The other option is to ask for further advice at Wikipedia:Teahouse, where someone more familar with Wikipedia policy should be able to assist. I hope that helps! -Kj cheetham (talk) 19:59, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for these words of advice; I would like to note that the {{COI|date=August 2020}} advice on top of the page is quite severe, and suggests a non-neutrality of the content. Would you perhaps volunteer to read the page and flag instances of non-neutrality so that I can remove them? Otherwise would you trust me to read this carefully and then remove the COI? If neither of these works, what avenue is left to remove the COI note? Note that I do everything transparently, i.e. my username reveals my identity. Andrea Saltelli 13:35, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Finally, we may anyhow agree that from now on, I will refrain to edit this page any further.

Saltean, Thank you for your reply. I've just had a read over the article myself, and made a minor edit. The only other thing I'd suggest is around the section where it talks about sensitivity analysis it has 2 or 3 paper refs for certain points, where a single ref would probably be sufficient, as per WP:CITETRIM. I've taken off the COI, as it's been discussed here. -Kj cheetham (talk) 12:55, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Kj cheetham, it was done, extra references have been removed. All the best. Andrea Saltelli 13:35, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]