User talk:Skaplan9
Welcome
[edit]Hello, Skaplan9, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.
Thank you for your edits to the Scott Kaplan article. I notice your username suggests the biography is about you or that you represent the subject. Naturally, we want biographical articles to be accurate and written responsibly; contributions from subjects are a valuable help in meeting that goal. The advice pages usually suggested to people in that position are this page and, particularly, this one. As it's a biography of a living person, it's important the content is supported by reliable-sources – please add them if you can. If you need any assistance do feel free to ask at the relevant noticeboard. Last, but not least: Happy editing! 92.6.202.54 (talk) 17:53, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Autobiography and control of content
[edit]Following up on the message above, please be aware that if you are Scott Kaplan, then you have no right of ownership or editorial control over the article about you. The article has had a drawn-out history of editors like yourself sanitizing the article of some negative information. Both positive and negative information about you, if taken from reliable third-party sources and presented from a netural point of view with due weight, is fair game for Wikipedia. Article content is arrived at by consensus, and the article's subject has no greater weight than other editors in debates about the content.
If you feel that information about you is being presented inaccurately or unfairly, then there are ways to deal with those problems. Please refer to Wikipedia's autobiography guideline, with particular attention to the sections If Wikipedia already has an article about you and Problems in an article about you. The only circumstance when a subject can remove information from their own biography is when statements are unambiguously untrue or libellous. Even so, those changes should be noted on the article talk page. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:42, 5 July 2017 (UTC)