User talk:Fredibus

March 2016

Hello, I'm Gaia Octavia Agrippa. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Fred Taylor (physicist), but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 00:23, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Fredibus, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Fred Taylor (physicist), which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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PS, thank you so much for uploading the picture! It is greatly appreciated, Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 00:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Fred Taylor (physicist)

Hello! I have added a copy of your edits to your user page. They are also accessible by clicking on "View history" at the top of the article; this is the same for all Wikipedia articles, though there are rare cases that some edits are hidden from view because they were abusive. For simplicity, [1] is a direct link to the revision history of Fred Taylor (physicist).

You are of course the best source about your own life. However, that does not count as a reliable source on Wikipedia. Please read this page and this section of the guidance of editing biographies of living persons (BLPs). In short: "Wikipedia discourages people from writing about themselves, [but] removal of unsourced or poorly sourced material is acceptable". If there is anything currently in the article that is wrong, please feel free to remove it. However, adding things to your own article is not really allowed.

Your article was in fact created by me. I hope you don't mind. Articles are created on Wikipedia based on notability, and I found that you were notable enough to qualify for a biographical article. Wikipedia is a group effort and I only created a very short article which has since been expanded by other editors.

Why did I revert your edits? Two things really, the first that there was only one reference included in all the text that was added (the memoir reference, though there was no page number cited for the quote), and the second was that through the image that you kindly uploaded I ascertained that you either are the subject of the article or are close to them. In wiki speak, the first reason was WP:Inline citation and WP:BLP, while the second was WP:COI.

What can be done now:

1. If there are any errors in article, please feel free to remove them.
2. If you know of any other sources about your life that could be used to expand the article, I would be grateful if you could point me towards them. This could be an interview you have done, a profile on an academic website/learned society, etc. For example, I will use the Amazon profile you linked to at the bottom of the article during your edits.
3. I shall set about expanding the article myself. If you have any comments about what I've added, please make them on the article talk page so that other editors know about them. I am not a scientist and so if anything reads wrong because I have misinterpreted the source material or reworded it in a way that no longer makes sense, I would be grateful if you could point this out.

I hope this answers a number of questions that you might have and explains further why I reverted your edits. If having read the recommended pages, and you still have questions do please ask them. Gaia Octavia Agrippa ^Talk 12:13, 16 March 2016 (UTC)