User talk:Fiona Weir

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Hello Fiona Weir and welcome to Wikipedia! I am Ukexpat and I would like to thank you for your contributions.

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ukexpat (talk) 21:14, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here are comments I posted on OrangeMike's talk page, also reproduced here in case anyone else has advice too.

Hi Mike, Thanks for taking the time to edit my page. I'm new to this, so appreciate the feedback! I've got a few queries about things I don't yet understand: (1) I notice you've removed some links and said these were 'to copyright violations'. What does this mean, please? I thought links to external sites were OK - rather than using sources unacknowledged within the page - so I'm not sure how to put these right. (2) You've tagged the page as possibly edited by someone with a conflict of interest, I guess because you spotted the shared surname. I am indeed David Weir's daughter, and I've tried to be transparent about that by using my own name rather than a pseudonym. Should I make this relationship even clearer, and if so, how? I checked Wiki guidelines and it tells me "Closeness to a subject does not mean you're incapable of being neutral, but it may incline you towards some bias" . I've tried hard not to be biased (I've not said my dad's the greatest, for instance!) but are there particular phrases you think do show bias that I should change? (3) The page is also tagged for general cleanup. What does this mean, and what should I do? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you again for your help!

Fiona Weir (talk) 13:29, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Responses

1. Those links were to scans of copyrighted articles; such scans are clearcut violations of the copyrights of the publisher of the articles, and links to such scans are a violation of Wikipedia policies. 2. You made your COI quite clear, and we generally leave such tags on for a while. 3. There's some non-encyclopedic language, with words like "popular" and "cult classic" strewn about but not supported; in addition, some of our formatting guidelines were not followed on things like the title of TV episodes vs. the titles of series. (I already fixed some of that). --Orange Mike | Talk 14:15, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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