User talk:EyeScan

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Gray Lyda

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Emperor (talk) 16:44, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article List of science fiction visual artists, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Name change? Why?

Why would you do that? We encourage people to use their real names here (in sf fandom, "Orange Mike" is my "real name"). We don't want you to stop using your real/professional name, we just want you to stop editing articles about yourself, inserting yourself in lists, etc. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:45, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the only real reason you'd need to change your name would be if you weren't Gray Lyda as that'd be against the naming conventions. Ah well it is done now.

Anyway I wouldn't worry too much, as long as you take a look at the WP:COI and WP:AUTO guidelines which outline what you can't do, as well as what you can (and the limits on certain pages). We have plenty of people here with their own pages and it isn't a big deal. If you do spot something that needs doing but you are unsure if it is OK you can ask but the best bet is to err on the side of caution and drop a note about it onto the talk page then other editors can decide the best way to add/adjust the information, and most articles fall within the remit of at least one project so if you have any wider problems or concerns you can always drop them a note and someone will be able to help.

The big thing you can do to help is provide reliable sources that can help reference the information in the article and make sure the notability angle isn't a problem.

Hope that helps and feel free to ask any questions. (Emperor (talk) 01:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]

New round of edits to Gray Lyda

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. These edits included personal opinions, non-neutral language that the WP:COI principal is there to prevent. If you have actual references to add to the article, offer them on the article's talk page, do not add them yourself when you are the subject. In many cases, you put in-line links into the middle of an article, including to somebody's Twitter account[!]; and worse yet, these were usually links to articles which had nothing to say about Gray Lyda/you. --Orange Mike | Talk 21:48, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure I've gotten plenty of mileage from the don't bite the newbie policy. I appreciate that! My intention was merely to post a little bio to help update the Star*Reach contributors list. Now I'd like to know how I can help to comply with the scary banner notices at the top.

I am inclined to just remove any sentences in the bio which cannot be verified by citations, as they refer to the pre-digital dark ages and I'll be darned if I can find any internet records that support these particular facts -- e.g., the entertaining "Magic Pizza" restaurant was a glorious creative achievement that shone brightly and briefly, but there is not a wisp of web-evidence that it ever existed. Even such a trivial point as my cast member job at Disneyland cannot be verified without going to The Hub, which is a secure Disney site that requires an employee password.

Rather than blundering in again to make further stupid edits to this bio, I would happily invite anyone else to cut out the offending or unsupportable elements that are presented here -- whatever it takes to clean this up and resolve the tags. Even if it shortens the whole thing to a tiny boring paragraph, that's fine with me. Maybe Orange Mike could perform this task? I am confident that his(your) helpful monitoring of this page will enable you to fix it up so there can be no question of COI or neutrality issues. Thanks, and belated Happy Orangemike's Day! EyeScan (talk) 19:21, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removing the banner can be a pain once it is there (I have raised concerns about it before) but we have managed it with articles like Michael Netzer and Catherine Yronwode, both of whom have really helped get the articles up to standard (after all who is a better expert on you?) and have stuck around and become active contributors. So the talk pages there (and the articles) might prove helpful but mainly with WP:BLP articles we have to be very careful about what claims are made and ensure they are all sourced (which is designed to protect you as well as produce a useful and balanced article for the general reader). So the best thing you can do is dig out reliable sources we can use, it doesn't have to be online but if you have a copy a scan would be handy (especially as we work to remove the COI header). The key is not what we know, it is all about what we can prove. If there is anything that is proving difficult to source we can move it to the talk page and bring it back when the references are available. The important thing is there is no deadline and it doesn't have to be perfect right away, unless we get lucky articles usually involve quite a long slog to hone them up to the quality you'd want from an encyclopaedia.

Anyway familiarise yourself with WP:COI and WP:AUTO (which give guidance on how to progress) and we'll take it from there. At least initially it'd be best to work through the talk pages here and on your article and then we can get someone in to assess if we've done enough to start removing the headers from the page.

As always you can ask questions here, on the article talk page, at the relevant projects (like WT:CMC) and you can seek clarification on the guidelines' talk page if you have a specific question. There are a lot of people around and all the majority want to do is help improve articles so there'll always be someone around who can help. (Emperor (talk) 04:25, 28 February 2010 (UTC))[reply]

Possibly unfree File:Poster MagicPizza.jpg

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