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Happy editing! POLITANVM talk 21:34, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
upload the photo to wikicommons first .. making sure to comply with Creative Commons requirements and then link it to wiki page. STC1 ( talk) 22:47, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
I noticed an article about me on Wikipedia. It was very brief and incomplete. I made extensive edits to it before coming across a notice that I should not have because autobiographies are not allowed. Please advise where I should go from here. My edits were saved, but now a "Problem" notice appears at the top of the article. Should it be removed entirely? Is one of your editors interested in expanding the material that first appeared based on my edits? Please advise as to what I should do from here. Thank you.
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Bill Zimmerman (activist), you may have a
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Hi Cozumel1973, since you have a serious COI I strongly suggest you cease editing the article directly and certainly do not remove the COI notice (aka tag) from the article. That will get in you trouble, which may lead to your account being blocked. One of issues I have is that you have included a substantial amount of content about Z&M, however, the article is not about Z&M. I am going to post a note on the COI noticeboard to get some other eyes/opinions from other editors. In the meantime, in addition to reading through the material linked in the COI notice above, I suggest reading the following policies/guidelines: Bilography of living people, Neutral point of view and guide on using talk pages. S0091 ( talk) 21:20, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for helping with this. Can you tell me to which article you refer. Some of the articles refer Zimmerman as an individual but describe work he did with Z&M. Also, the photo was taken by a friend of a friend, who is known to me. It was just a snapshot, never copywriter or registered, and I have his permission to use it. I thought I did upload to the Commons. Did I err in doing so? Thanks again. Cozumel1973 ( talk) 23:18, 27 June 2021 (UTC)Cozumel1973
Understood. There is only one article. I thought you were referring to one of the reference articles I included. I will try to take care of the photo as you suggest, but all the references included refer either to the subject (Zimmerman) or to the company which bears his name. If there are specific references that trouble you, please indicate them and I will remove them. Thanks. Cozumel1973 ( talk) 23:54, 27 June 2021 (UTC)Cozume1973.
I read over the material you linked and have a somewhat better understanding of the problems the article had. Specifically, I see that many of the references I included were interviews with Zimmerman, and that constituted a self-referential cite, which is not allowed. However, I still have some questions. You trimmed out a lot of material that still seems to me to be appropriate. For example, the LA Times article entitled, MoveOn's Brains Aim Straight for the Heart, seems to clearly indicated that Z&M was operating as MoveOn's media consultant and making numerous TV spots for them. Yet you cut it. Wh? The LA Times article entitled, TV Drive for Nuclear Freeze Measure Opens, clearly states that ZGF did their media, but it too was cut. The articles in the Chicago papers talk about Zimmerman doing the TV spots for Harold Washington, one even has his picture, but that too is gone. There are other examples, the Rose Bird effort, the Countdown '87 campaign, Gary Hart's presidential primary in California, but I won't go on. Apparently, there is a principle I am missing, because these are all legitimate news sources, they all document that statements made in the article, and they all mention the names of Zimmerman as an individual and the firm he worked for. I do see why you cut much of the stuff you did, but can you please explain why you cut some material that seems to me to fit the guidelines. Thanks. Cozumel1973 ( talk) 03:37, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Cozumel1873.
I have made a few edits trying to comply with your recommendations. I will await additional feedback before making any others to see what I have done so far is in compliance with your guidelines. Thanks for whatever feedback you can give me. Cozumel1973 ( talk) 20:52, 14 July 2021 (UTC)Cozumel1973
OK, thanks, I will try to comply. Cozumel1973 ( talk) 22:34, 14 July 2021 (UTC)Cozumel973