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And you must stop editing content directly about yourself or the institution you lead. If you do not understand the WP:COI guideline, please ask. You will face an indefinite block from editing Wikipedia if you continue. Jytdog ( talk) 15:50, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jytdog, User:Robmishra is not SOCK. The changes were undone. Please help me to revert to the 2015 version, and provide specific comments that are suitable for making edits/revisions to address any concerns that you might have. The coverage and style used in the 2015 page are in agreement with accepted practices -- please see other bios of renowned engineers/scientists. I am happy to address any specifics. Please stop making changes, deleting all existing content and reliable sources in the 2015 page, and offer specific comments to address. Thank you.
I read WP:COI guideline. I am familiar with the COI concept as used in academia. I have been in academia for 32 years, and am frequently asked to provide biographical information, articles and opinions that in many cases rely on my and other published works. I cite all key items carefully and appropriately. I totally agree with you, the integrity of Wikipedia is very important. I am a frequent user of it and promoter of its use to my students and colleagues.
As background, the page in question was started in about 2008, and received significant changes and updates to enhance citations and some content in 2015. This COI situation has not been raised, or if it were, issues were addressed. The pages have been cleared by Wikipedia volunteers and used for many years. I am happy to revise the 2015 page to meet the COI requirements, but need help. I am not very knowledgeable with the Wikipedia protocol (like this page) and interfaces, but willing to learn. I would like you to re-examine the last 2015 version, and give me specific comments. I am more than happy to address all concerns. Please do not have all the content since 2008 deleted and started all over -- this is not fair. The current version is a chopped out piece of the 2015 version that would require me to bring so much of the old content which seems now is not acceptable. Most citations (if not all) in the 2015 version are of high quality, and I know that they meet the requirement of most reputable archival journals. I have been the editor of several academic journals. As for the Center for Technology and Systems Management and BMA Engineering, I direct both and do not know how to best cite them. I could delete them, but it would lead to significant information loss to users.
As suggested, I read and thought of the Trust test: "[W]ould relevant others ... [readers, editors, admins, arbitration committee, Wikimedia Foundation] ... trust my judgment if they knew I was in this situation?" The page in question passes this test. It is factual, and designed to helpful to the users of Wikipedia including governmental agencies, policy makers, journalists, researchers worldwide. Please help me to keep the useful content, cite it properly, cleared from Wikipedia, tagged as needed, and publish it. Thank you for your help.
OK, so I would like to get you oriented to how Wikipedia works so that the content you suggest on Talk pages will be useful. There are some non-intuitive things about editing here, that I can zip through ~pretty~ quickly....
The first thing, is that our mission is to produce articles that provide readers encyclopedia articles that summarize accepted knowledge, and to do that as a community that anyone can be a part of. That's the mission. As you can imagine, if this place had no norms, it would be a Mad Max kind of world interpersonally, and content would be a slag heap (the quality is really bad in parts, despite our best efforts). But over the past 15 years the community has developed a whole slew of norms, via lots of discussion. One of the first norms, is that we decide things by consensus. That decision itself, is recorded here: WP:CONSENSUS, which is one of our "policies". (There is a whole forest of things, in "Wikipedia space" - pages in Wikipedia that start with "Wikipedia:AAAA" or for short, "WP:AAAA". WP:CONSENSUS is different from Consensus. ) And when we decide things by consensus, that is not just local in space and time, but includes meta-discussions that have happened in the past. The results of those past meta-discussions are the norms that we follow now. We call them policies and guidelines - and these documents all reside in Wikipedia space. There are policies and guidelines that govern content, and separate ones that govern behavior. Here is very quick rundown:
In terms of behavior, the key norms are:
If you can get all that (the content and behavior policies and guidelines) under your belt, you will become truly "clueful", as we say. If that is where you want to go, of course. I know that was a lot of information, but hopefully it is digestable enough.
Please make sure that any content you propose, complies with the content policies and guidelines. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 23:30, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
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I am planning to make the changes in several requests in order to learn the process and style. This would help me to have better requests in the future. Please note that I am following the styles in Guy Nordenson and Lotfi Zadeh.
Request 1:
Please replace the following paragraph:
Bilal M. Ayyub is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1983, and the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) at the university. He works in the areas of risk analysis, uncertainty modeling, decision analysis, and systems engineering. [1]
With the following paragraph:
Bilal M. Ayyub (born 1958) is a risk analyst, reliability engineer, mathematician, and professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) since 1983, and the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) at the UMD A. James Clark School of Engineering. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating with a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering in 1981 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1983. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from Kuwait University in 1980. [2] [3] [4] He works in the areas of risk analysis, uncertainty modeling, decision analysis, and systems engineering.
References
Reason: To add education, and that the CTSM is a unit of the James Clark School of Engineering. Also, the footnotes were directed to a more reliable and better maintained sources.
I have a question regarding sources and links, does WP prefer internal links or external links for sources? Also, I noticed that the Center for Technology and Systems Management page was deleted. I have to address this item later. Thank you. BAyyub ( talk) 00:53, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Thank you. This is helpful. I changed the paragraph to the following:
Bilal M. Ayyub (born 1958) is a risk analyst, reliability engineer, mathematician, and professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) since 1983, and the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management (CTSM) at the UMD A. James Clark School of Engineering. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating with a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering in 1981 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1983. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from Kuwait University in 1980. [1] [2] [3] He works in the areas of risk analysis, uncertainty modeling, decision analysis, and systems engineering.
References
What do you think? If it is fine, please update the page; otherwise advise. Thanks. BAyyub ( talk) 01:45, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
I followed the styles of Guy Nordenson and Lotfi Zadeh for degrees and sources. Please provide help and examples. Should I delete the education and degrees? Do you have suggestions how to fix? 173.73.28.152 ( talk) 02:21, 26 March 2016 (UTC) BAyyub ( talk) 02:22, 26 March 2016 (UTC) Is this a suitable source http://ucmcons.ku.edu.kw/ku/News/KU_011225 ? BAyyub ( talk) 02:29, 26 March 2016 (UTC) Another source: http://www.ovpr.kuniv.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=423:risks-of-extreme-sea-level-and-weather-conditions-due-to-a-changing-climate-on-may-14-2013&catid=39:Announcements&Itemid=52 BAyyub ( talk) 02:31, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
I found very reliable sources: PhD https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/21476?show=full PhD, MSCE and BSCE Page 240 of http://docplayer.net/3530582-University-of-maryland-administrators-and-faculty.html Thank you. BAyyub ( talk) 02:56, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
I have NOT uploaded any documents to Docplayer (did not know it can be done, and presume they should be dated or attributed-- again do not know, picked it up by searching using Google). FYI, the content most likely came from the official UMD web site that I have found only today at http://apps.gradschool.umd.edu/catalog/faculty/a.htm It shows the official listing Ayyub, Bilal M. Regular Member B.S., Kuwait University, 1980; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1981; Ph.D., 1983. - Professor, Engineering: Civil and Environmental Engineering - Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation Please advise on next steps and any other changes necessary, and I am happy to work on them. Thanks BAyyub ( talk) 14:14, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
Hello Jytdog: Did you have the chance to update the page? Please note that future requests will be at Talk:Bilal M. Ayyub. Thank you for helping all the way through this fist request. BAyyub ( talk) 00:48, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
talk thank you.