User talk:Colinrockefeller

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Potential conflict of interest / user name issue

If you are the Colin Rockefeller who is the son of Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, you should be aware of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy, highlighted below. Hello, Colinrockefeller. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Colinrockefeller", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is the name of a living person who is connected to the articles that you have been editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:48, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As I am the one and only legitimate Colin Rockefeller, I am not in violation of the username policy. I understand the concern with my editing my father's page. However, much like many people on Wikipedia, I am just ensuring that something I care about is accurately portrayed. My edits are mostly limited to his personal life, as I understand that my personal admiration of him may lead to bias in editing his public appearance.

On that note, everything I have edited is completely factual. If you ever have questions about history, feel free to verify with the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain. They have the greatest access of any institution to the Winthrop branch.

If there is anything I can do to aid you in furthering this article, or any other related to the family for that matter, please let me know. Colinrockefeller (talk) 02:11, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thank you for the offer of support. in general, the types of primary source documents and first hand accounts that you and the foundation could provide are not the types of materials that we can use to build articles. We require some other researcher to assess the documents, put them in context and have their work professionally reviewed and published, before we can use it in an article. see WP:V and WP:OR. But if something false gets added to an article, we can use the veracity of primary source documents to remove or challenge that false content. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 02:23, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]