User talk:Meltedicecrema

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3RR warning

Your recent editing history at List of University of Michigan arts alumni shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Editing with a Conflict of Interest

Hello, Meltedicecrema. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:26, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi, the user JohninDC keeps removing my inclusion of Kristen Roupenian in University of Michigan Alumni, despite me citing several sources (links to articles about her in BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, etc. These are major publications. I have no conflict of interest. This user is bullying me. Please help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meltedicecrema (talk • contribs)

The editor is not bullying you. They are providing you with links to various Wikipedia policies and guidelines so that you can understand why your edits are being reverted. It is evident from your edits that you have a conflict of interest with regard to Kristen Roupenian and therefore should not be directly editing articles and topics regarding Roupenian. Edit-warring by restoring the disputed content is also against our policies; please use the article talk page to discuss the changes you would like to make in accordance with dispute resolution.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:40, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

I have no conflict of interest. I have never met the author.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Meltedicecrema (talk • contribs)

And the University of Michigan?--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 20:47, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

I am an alum of the University of Michigan, but attended several years prior to Kristen Roupenian. I have no current affiliation with the school, other than being an alum. I do not include every single alum on the page, only those with major publication track records. The user JohninDC is, from looking at his page, a University of Michigan alum. I am new to wikipedia, but it seems to me that if alumni status should prevent edits, then he should too be prevented. Professionally, I am a librarian, and it seems in the articles link that wikipedia encourages edits from librarians, especially, over other kinds of users.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Meltedicecrema (talk • contribs)

I'm not sure where you saw that Wikipedia prefers edits from librarians over other kinds of users, but there is no such preference. Being an alum definitely doesn't preclude you from editing the article. If there is no conflict of interest present, but your edits have been disputed, then discussing the changes on the talk page is still the path forward. This would fall under the dispute resolution guidelines I provided in one of my earlier messages above. When leaving posts on talk pages, please remember to sign your messages with four tildes (~~~~).--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:01, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

The resolution here is - or could be - pretty straightforward. Meltedicecrema should undertake to write an article about Karen Roupenian, with proper sources and references to establish her personal notability beyond her authorship of the viral story. (Such things are often correlated but are not the same - see WP:AUTHOR for general guidelines.) If this new article looks as though it meets the notability requirements, then adding Roupenian to the list of notable alums is pretty much a no-brainer. JohnInDC (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

My suggestion would be to write in in draft space (e.g. here), and it can be moved if notability and sourcing criteria are met. If the draft doesn't provide more sourced and notable info than what appears in Cat Person, then it is best left as a redirect.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:23, 25 September 2018 (UTC)