User talk:Onkusorrus

Greetings, Brian from another Brian. I think you did a good good with your edits, but you have to be very careful about editing your own article. If you have issues, let me know on my talk page and I, as another chemist (I have published as Brian J Duke, but I am getting a bit old now) but with a lot of experience with Wikipedia I will try to help. --Bduke (talk) 09:09, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Brian Orr, 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.

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Here's the thing: what you point at as "peer-reviewed sources" are actually primary from the point of view of biography. The article is not about molecules or spectroscopy: it's a about a living person. The sources should be about the person. But before we get to that, I need you to formally declare your conflict of interest, as linked above, under Best practices for editors with close associations. If you don't do that, you might well be blocked. In addition, I need you to have a look at WP:BLP. In the meantime, it's best not to edit the article directly. Thank you. Drmies (talk)

Greetings

Dear Brian, yes, out paths have crossed at various times. When I retired from Charles Darwin University, as it now is, my wife, Linden, and I decided to move to Melbourne where her parents were. Sadly, Linden and her parents have died and I am on my own, although one of my two sons is here and I have just done a walk with him today. From Darwin, I had two sabbaticals. One was 5 months with Fritz and the other was a couple of months or so with Leo. Both were highly productive as I could concentrate of research rather than all the admin of starting up a new department in a new university. I said "you have to be very careful about editing your own article", because sadly most people who do edit their own article make a mess of it as they do not understand wikipedia. You, however, made an excellent job of it, but it is not recommended. I have been on wikipedia for many years and was an admin for many years until I resigned last year, as I felt I was no longer up to it. As an admin I sorted out a lot of problems that arose from people editing their own article, and it often meant that they were banned from editing wikipedia for a period. Putting a comment on the talk page usually leads to someone else fixing the problem. Best wishes, Brian.--Bduke (talk) 11:16, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

One problem with the article is the list of references. They are all, except 2, references to your publications. They should be references that support the content of the article. --Bduke (talk) 11:16, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

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