User talk:Rawars

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Parenting plan, 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Chris troutman (talk) 03:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize in advance if my response is in the wrong format. The change I made on the parenting page was to link the phrase Overnights and Visitation to the Wiki page for my name. Instead I should have footnoted the phrase and inserted the references - two articles I wrote that were published in a peer-review journal on this specific topic, both with the word Overnights in the article's title. There is no conflict of interest. These are recognized and frequently cited as seminal articles on this topic. Thank you for your helpful feedback as I struggle to learn the ways of Wiki. Rawars (talk) 13:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Richard Warshak for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Richard Warshak is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Warshak until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Kendall-K1 (talk) 22:56, 5 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

Hi Richard and thanks for your message on my talk page and for looking into the requested citations. For the first one, a reference does not need to be online in order to be cited, however it does need to verify the specific content in the article. So a magazine that "mentions" you is not enough, it needs to clearly state the degrees received. The second one is a primary source, whereas wikipedia works by including information that has been covered in reliable, secondary sources - so you would need someone independent saying in a journal, book, newspaper article etc that your work was the first to do this in order to include this statement, otherwise it needs to be removed from the article. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 21:31, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]