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While working on some modules I noticed that the some edits at the above article need to be checked and probably reverted (the "born" date in the infobox is currently showing "invalid day"). However, I cannot see an old version that I can quickly identify as "probably good". Edits in recent weeks have changed several key details. Would someone with a clue please check it. Johnuniq ( talk) 00:08, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi Is there anyone who's a more experienced Wikipedia editor that could help me out with improving my page 'Simon Cohen (communication expert)'? I have a conflict of interest as I am currently working together with the subject of the page. I have submitted the page although I alone have not written the text for the article. Which words are a no-no for a biography that's promoting the subject? Thanks, and I truly appreciate any advice on this. MatildeZ ( talk) 09:49, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
Could someone more experienced than me look at the notes I've put on the above link? IPs (presumably same person) keep removing text, some uncontroversial, some controversial but carefully worded and cited. The edit summaries have generally given no reason, but on 4th May there was one with legal threats, which I've only just seen. Thanks for any help anyone can offer, Boleyn ( talk) 19:40, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
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I added a section on Linnda R. Caporael's page titled, "Contribution to Historiography of Salem Witch Trials". There was no mention of her new ergotism theory to the Salem trials and the debate that it created among scholars. I also added a few footnotes, and fixed some grammar in the "Educational Background" section as well. I think adding a section about her new theory was helpful, because there wasn't much information about her otherwise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Annie.farrington ( talk • contribs) 00:26, 8 May 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill#Citations. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 06:31, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
The image File:Robert miles photo.jpg is nominated for discussion, where I invite you to comment. -- George Ho ( talk) 06:09, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Emmett Till#RfC: Should we include the "accused of showing an interest in a white woman" aspect in the lead or specifically the lead sentence?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 02:55, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
Shouldn't Duke of Scania and Duchess of Scania be covered under one article? One seems to list the consorts of the other -- 65.94.169.56 ( talk) 05:29, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
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Would someone from WP:BIOG mind taking a look at Ajay Ohri to see if he's really notable for a stand-alone article article per WP:BIO or WP:NAUTHOR? Some of the sources cited are pretty trivial things which are very unlikely to be considered the WP:SIGCOV needed to show notability. I'm asking here because better sources may exist and someone here may know where to find them. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:46, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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Would someone mind taking a look at this article and reassessing it? To me most of the sources appear to be trivial mentions, gallery bio pages or reviews. The only independent sources seems to be ta New York Times, but the subject is only mentioned at the very end in a listing for one of his exhbitions. Anyway, other might have a different take on things so figured I'd ask. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 07:09, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Greetings, WikiProject Biography members. Since editors here work on a lot of biographical articles, I'm hoping I can get some additional feedback on a draft I recently submitted to AfC. This draft article for James F. Allen, written on his behalf and as part of my work with Beutler Ink, was declined by User:SwisterTwister for being "Too suggestive of an advertised business profile for clients, notability cannot be inherited from others and the sources are largely consisting of simple announcements, local business journals, notices and similar." I posted a reply on the draft's talk page, and received a reply in the form of an additional AfC comment that said the sources were "not significant weight-ful of notability, including because they include local business publications and similar". I'm not entirely sure what this means because I thought the sources used are considered major publications (for example, Forbes and The Press of Atlantic City); it would be helpful to get editors from here to take a look and point me in the right direction.
I appreciate the AfC process and SwisterTwister's review of the draft, but this process has not really provided specific ways to improve the draft, so I'm casting a wider net and reaching out to this WikiProject for additional input. Are there are WikiProject Biography members who are willing to review this draft and provide additional feedback? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Inkian Jason ( talk) 20:02, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Is anyone able to figure out if we have an article about this politician please? Please ping me when you reply. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 22:58, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
More input needed on this ongoing talk discussion (and this BLPN discussion) about citing significant relationships in a BLP. Thanks. Lapadite ( talk) 00:52, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
There is a discussion about the article Don Reitz at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Don_Reitz. Please voice your opinion. —አቤል ዳዊት ? (Janweh64) ( talk) 03:43, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hello. Does anyone have any suggestions to find the dates of birth and death of Spires Boling, an architect in the Antebellum South please? Please ping me when you reply. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 02:33, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hello! I am notifying interested projects and editors that I've listed Abu Eesa Niamatullah for discussion at AfD.
I invite you all to contribute to the discussion. Mujaddouda ( talk) 21:35, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Lists of people by occupation is being discussed for deletion. Softlavender ( talk) 09:03, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
I am rather new to wiki-ing. I completed my first big article and it is a biography of a woman (I think that fits two or three needed/sought/desirable categories).
So! How do I join this project and the subprojects.
I have noodled around on the pages with no success..... QvixenSSF ( talk) 02:12, 6 June 2017 (UTC)QvixenSSF / SuzQ! (new handle -coming soon).
Is editing or discussing biographical articles increasingly tense and heated lately? Individual infobox discussions don't generally get heated, e.g. Talk:2017 Berkeley protests. However, debates about biographical infoboxes do get heated, like Talk:Stanley Kubrick and Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes. I also realize the heat is no longer limited to infoboxes.
The filmography of Erin Moran was removed but then reverted. Then the discussion about the filmography got heated at Talk:Erin Moran, though the issue has been resolved.
Also, some non-free images of deceased persons get removed (or deleted), like an image of Robert Miles ( FFD), while some other non-free images remain (especially after failed attempts to remove or delete them), like those of Reg Grundy ( FFD) and Tony Scott. The votes at FFD were split, but the individual results may vary.
Also, the guideline WP:NSPORTS is challenged and debated at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). The discussion is still pending a closure.
Again, are discussions about biographical articles and individuals increasingly heated? If so, why? If not, how else can the phenomena exemplified by the above be explained? -- George Ho ( talk) 23:46, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill#Should this essay be changed to encourage more citations?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 01:18, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
MilHist project is hosting a discussion on GA / FA articles that have been tagged as possibly having unreliable sources. The discussion can be found here:
Interested editors are invited to participate. K.e.coffman ( talk) 00:01, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
The following two images are nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Files for discussion/2017 June 8: File:Alan kurdi smiling playground.jpg and File:Reg Grundy 20 September 2010.jpg. I invite you to discuss those separate nominations. -- George Ho ( talk) 05:03, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
Can anyone from this project please take a look at this playwright's biography? It contains an awful lot of uncited and rambling material, it seems to me, and discusses various amateur productions. All the best! -- 65.78.11.228 ( talk) 17:12, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
I have concerns about the notability of this person. Article seems to be a puff piece by a paid editor. Any advice would be appreciated. Bosley John Bosley ( talk) 16:43, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm here to see if there are any editors from this WikiProject who would be able to review a draft to update the article for Stewart W. Bainum Jr. Mr. Bainum is a former Maryland state lawmaker and current chairman of Choice Hotels. His current article is quite short possibly due to the fact that a lot of the more in-depth sources about him are older and in newspaper archives. Based on news clippings provided by Mr. Bainum and from research on Lexis Nexis and HighBeam, I've been able to find a lot of older sources that provide information about his political career and his development of the company that became Choice Hotels. If this piques your interest, I have posted an edit request on the article's Talk page with more details. The new draft is saved in my user space here: User:16912_Rhiannon/Stewart_W._Bainum_Jr
Let me know if you have any feedback or questions about the new draft. Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 20:52, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
I have nominated List of regicides of Charles I for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. - SchroCat ( talk) 08:20, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Just to notify that both redirects, Obama bin Laden and Obama Bin Laden, are discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 June 4#Obama Bin Laden, where I invite you to join. -- George Ho ( talk) 10:07, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
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The article Edwin Jürgensen has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
relies on a single source and also lacks any notability, also lacks any information
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Hello! There are inaccuracies on S. Robson Walton regarding his marital status and children. I posted an edit request to have these details corrected. Can someone from WikiProject Biography assist with this? I will not direct edit the page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest; I work with the Walton family office, as I disclosed on my user page. Let me know if you have any questions on my request. Thanks, Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 18:14, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
Greetings, WikiProject Biography members. Recently, my AfC submission for James F. Allen (businessman) was accepted, but I'm now looking for someone to add an image of Mr. Allen to the article's infobox. I prefer not to edit the article myself because of my disclosed conflict of interest, so I submitted an edit request on the article's talk page. Is someone here willing to add the image to the inbox on my behalf? Thanks in advance. Inkian Jason ( talk) 20:10, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
One editor is concerned about adding the image to the infobox because of the pending OTRS template, but I don't think this should be a problem. Is another editor comfortable adding a headshot image to a biography infobox? @ Dank, Sandstein, and Wizardman: I see you are active members of WikiProject Biography, so I am hoping one of you might be willing to help with this simple task? I simply prefer not to edit the article directly. Inkian Jason ( talk) 16:36, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
Was wndering if someone would mind taking a look at Ronald Francis and assessing it for notability. It appears to have been created as a WP:AUTOBIO by the subject itself, and is not supported by any citations to reliable sources. I don't think Francis is notable per WP:BIO, but I'm not sure about WP:ARTIST. Anyway, any feedback on the article's notability would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 07:43, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Editors at this project may want to review the work of Helenrp ( talk · contribs), who has been creating hundreds of biographical stub articles sourced to only the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The main problems with their work include:
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Three questions:
-- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 08:39, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
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I have now contributed to Wikimedia projects for many years, and I'm ready to ask another question based on those years of experience, hoping that nobody will be too offended and also that I'm asking it in the right place.
Q: Does anyone know if it ever has been discussed on these pages or elsewhere that a few editors, who seem to want to own certain articles about royalty and other famous people, or at least want be seen as having a considerable personal impact on those life stories, often contribute to those articles more from that personal impact angle than from a strictly encyclopedic standpoint?
I am not alleging that this is a major problem, nor that many editors behave that way, but after all these years, it seems to me that a guideline might be appropriate with a wording something like this: Never let it show that you contribute to any article about a famous person because you primarily want your own personal impact on that life story to be evident.
Please feel free to comment candidly, but preferably in a constructive and non-aggressive manner. Some of you might have no idea at all what I'm talking about. -- SergeWoodzing ( talk) 19:06, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi all, I would consider it a favor if at least one other editor could please add Drashti Dhami to their watchlist to ensure objectivity and conformity to community standards. Thanks, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 04:19, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
The article Sandro del Prete has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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The article Terrayne Crawford has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Adil Doğançay has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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The article Edgar L. Sanford has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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The article Hermann Greulich has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Discussion about retaining the entry of Prodigy's death is occurring at Talk:2017#Prodigy, where I invite you to discuss. -- George Ho ( talk) 11:55, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
RfC tag is inserted at Talk:2017#.5BReady.5D Prodigy. -- George Ho ( talk) 05:08, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment on parenthetical information in first sentence. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 04:51, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
There is a request for Jennifer Lawrence to be featured on the main page for her upcoming birthday on August 15th. See Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Jennifer Lawrence for more. Would prefer responses sooner rather than later. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 20:14, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I'd like to invite you to Cycle 3 of the Wikimedia Movement Strategy discussions. This cycle is focused on the challenges identified by the research that was conducted in collaboration with experts, current/potential partners, and current/potential readers of the Wikimedia projects. Every week until the end of July, one challenge will be discussed, so if you're not interested in - say - challenge 1, don't forget to have a look on the page later this month.
If you want to ask a question, ping me or read the FAQ. SGrabarczuk (WMF) ( talk) 23:02, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi, This ( Draft:Charles Jeffrey Gray) is my first attempt at an article and I am aware that there is potential for conflict of interest as it's about my late father. It has been suggested that I should ask at this project for assistance and I would be grateful if someone with knowledge of these matters could take a look? Many thanks Robertjgray ( talk) 00:03, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
Please check what is taking place around the article " Nader El-Bizri" since this was proposed for deletion, but the reasons put forward touch upon statements that harm the reputation of the living person it covers. The ranking and merits of the work of a living person should be judged by their peers and not simply by random wikipedia users, especially if the deletion has not been requested by someone specializing in academia but by someone who has been covering businessmen and billionaires. Please check this serious matter since it lowers the integrity of wikipedia and causes actual harm to living people, especially if they are in the public domain and well known in their field. The article exists since 2008 and it received a thousand of edits, by multiple users, and visited by you and checked numerous times over the years. If you are unable to ckeck it, maybe suggest how to call for responsible and experienced editors to do. Thanks ( 2A02:C7D:36C6:8300:8170:FF93:C1C4:942C ( talk) 12:19, 8 July 2017 (UTC))
The article Jan Konůpek has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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The article Juan Valdivia (insurgent soldier) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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I honestly could not find much articles on him, but I listed what I did find. - Book: https://books.google.com/books/about/CASE_OF_ELIZABETH_RUTGERS_VERS.html?id=KKhDvgAACAA - His court cases: https://books.google.com/books?id=HCNLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=joshua+waddington+facts&source=bl&ots=eh36sGUozs&sig=u4UDN8sKYexY9COZ0s-- BFtaHkGo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQtJjTrILVAhWLcj4KHWtJBCIQ6AEIRzAG#v=onepage&q=joshua%20waddington%20facts&f=false - Famous court cases: http://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/legal-history-eras-02/history-new-york-legal-eras-rutgers-waddington.html Longtallsid ( talk) 23:37, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
An article that is of interest to this project has been nominated for community reassessment. The discussion can be found here:
Interested editors are invited to weigh in. K.e.coffman ( talk) 01:55, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
her page, just a stub actually, claims 50 movies.... but iMBD says only three, the rest of her credits are TV shows and all appear to be in Spanish. shouldn't the article receive Speedy Deletion on the ENGLISH Wikipedia? -- Qazwiz ( talk) 16:13, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
These revisions are for the Joshua Waddington page. I read through it and saw a few things that can be fixed. I plan to rewrite some sections as well as change around sentences. Longtallsid ( talk) 04:46, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
There is an article entitled Noah brothers about Dan and Bramwell Noah, which contends that the duo are often credited as "Noah brothers" or "Noah Bros", but I am not seeing that is true based upon this search.
There is little in IMDB for them, such as this for Bramwell or Dan, where there is more info. In neither case is there mention of Noah Brothers.
What are your thoughts about this?– CaroleHenson ( talk) 19:35, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
Is there anyone who'd be willing to take a stab at rewriting the article for ' Stephen_Maitland-Lewis? While I've been on Wikipedia for awhile, I haven't yet tackled writing a full Wikipedia entry. Supcomtabz ( talk) 17:09, 12 July 2017 (UTC) Tabz
A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Germanicus; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert ( talk) 07:54, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Elijah Daniel 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/Elijah Daniel (2nd nomination) 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.
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A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Junayd of Aydın; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert ( talk) 11:26, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
There is a merge discussion at Talk:Emily_Dickinson#Proposed_merge_with_Kate_Scott_Turner about merging an article about someone that it seems that Dickinson loved with the main article. In my response, I have also posed the question about further exploring Dickinson's sexuality, which could be done within the main article or perhaps a separate article.
Any input would be wonderful!– CaroleHenson ( talk) 17:59, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#RfC: Red links in infoboxes. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 09:39, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
[Following text copied here from the photo caption to reduce confusion]
Wondering if this is Reginald Harrison.
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The article Atobe Katsusuke has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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12:37, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
The English language article says he was born in 1761, different dates of birth depending on the languages (!) The text indicates 1761. Anybody here who knows the exact date so it can be corrected everywhere? Thank you for your time. Lotje ( talk) 10:28, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
Hi, quick question, do you think we could create a new category for 'Muse' for those notable individuals who have inspired others to create. It currently doesn't seem to exist on WP so wondered if it had been discussed before and maybe rejected as problematic or if there are cases where we could and should use it. e.g. Stella Cartwright and others listed in this article for instance. @ Victuallers: Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stinglehammer ( talk • contribs) 13:33, 22 July 2017 (UTC)
Can I get some eyes on Billy Davis (Arizona politician) please. It's basically a fluff piece written by a user whom I suspect is the article's subject. The vast majority of the article is complete personal scrapbooking and fluffery but I know nothing about the article subject to do much more. I've removed a lot (and I mean a lot) but there is a lot more work to do to make this article worthy of staying on Wikipedia. The subject is notable, minorly, so I've not tried to go through a deletion process but any attempts I've made to get more eyes on it have failed (e.g. politics and Arizona noticeboards.) So if anyone has any time and wants to get a huge pair of scissors to an article, this is your time. Cheers. Canterbury Tail talk 13:15, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Anybody here who knows if Leonard Van Noppen and Leonard Charles van Noppen are related and in which way? See also: s:Author talk:Leonard Van Noppen Thank you for your time. Lotje ( talk) 10:35, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello! There is currently a dispute at Simone Manuel, an article under this WikiProject's scope, regarding the statement that Manuel is the first black woman to win a swimming gold in an individual event and whether or not Ranomi Kromowidjojo's racial background renders this statement incorrect for Manuel. Other editors are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Simone Manuel#Simone Manuel, the first black woman to win a gold medal? ~Cheers, Ten Ton Parasol 22:46, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello. User:DrFleischman has removed the bibliography section from Antonio Spadaro's article. I have asked them to restore it but they suggest it should be redacted because of WP:NOTBIBLIOGRAPHY. I disagree. It seems absolutely standard to add a "Works" section with a list of the books authored by the subject of an article; however, I could be wrong. What does WikiProject Biography think please? Should the content be restored? Otherwise, is there a strict rule against adding "works" sections in biographical articles please? Hopefully we can reach consensus and come to an understanding once and for all, as they have admitted to redacting such information from other articles in the past. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 22:31, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
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Greetings, WikiProject Biography members. On behalf of David Trone and Hickman Analytics, as part of my work with Beutler Ink, I have submitted an edit request to update Mr. Trone's Wikipedia article. I've proposed a few updates to the article's "Personal life" section, and suggested a few links for "Further reading" and/or "External links" sections. The proposed additions (which I've outlined here) are not very controversial, in my opinion, but I can't edit the article directly because of my COI and I'm looking for a neutral volunteer who can review the proposed text/links and update the article accordingly. Is a WP:BIO participant willing to help? Inkian Jason ( talk) 20:13, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello. I want to direct a willing editor's attention to two semi-protected edit requests over at Talk:Imran Khan and at Talk:Mumtaz Qadri. If anyone in this WikiProject has the time, please consider reviewing these requests. Thank you. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) ( talk) 21:24, 1 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello again. Aside from the yet unanswered edit requests I described above this section, there are multiple conflict of interest edit requests on articles in your scope waiting review.
Please also send these to relevant WikiProjects if any of them cannot be answered by this project. Thank you. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) ( talk) 21:45, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
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Hi. Can someone please turn Jean-Laurent Bonnafé's picture around to make it look normal as it does on the French Wikipedia? Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 08:29, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
Should Anshe Chung really be classified as a biography? It's an article about an online avatar which seems to be more of an article about a fictional character than an actual person. I guess it can be loosely referred to as a biography, but not in a Wikipedia sense. Articles about fictional characters may contain information about real people, but they are not typically categorized as biographies, are they? This one was even tagged with Category:Living persons which caused it to be flagged as a BLP with respect to the infobox image. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 06:17, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
Before a notable person does something notable in their lives, they are not notable, so no-one pays much notice. Once they become begin to attract public attention, the press takes an interest in the person's backstory. They usually glean this info directly from the subject, typically in an interview for a puff-piece article that the subject is happy to do as part of their public relations. The subject is therefore entirely in control of this backstory, and can put into it, or exclude, whatever they wish. This sort of human interest story is very unlikely to be subject to any ratification by the publishers, so appears, exactly as the subject wishes it to, in publications that Wikipedia will assume to be a reliable source.
But we really cannot take that information as having been checked or verified: it is autobiographical in origin. Of course in the vast majority of cases it is true, but some people will exaggerate for effect. Some people undoubtedly have been brought up in very crowded or impoverished conditions, worked from an early age, suffered abuse, been neglected by parents with mental health or addiction problems, done many hours of training before school, or explored other promising career paths before settling on the route that lead them to fame. But it is also the case that it will suit others to exaggerate the conditions of their childhood.
Essentially, what happened in the privacy of a family home, unless it became a matter for a criminal law case, is unknown outside of that home, and the objective truths of what happened may be very different from the subjective experience of it, even where the best intentions to give an honest description are held.
In the interests of providing an encyclopaedic record of what is reliably true, how much credence can therefore be given to these recollections? Our rules on verifiability state, "Any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material." A link to an interview in which the subject makes that autobiographical claim does not provide adequate proof that the subject is not creating a version of their personal history for reasons that suit their adult selves, and yet that is essentially what we currently accept. If someone is inclined to challenge a biographical detail, then "Well he said it was true" does not really cut it: people are not always objective or honest in regard to their past.
So should we:
My preference would be for B: readers need to be mature enough to accept that such disclaimers do not amount to saying that we do not collectively believe it to be untrue, but that we can only inform the reader that it is unverifiable. (I had posted this at Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons yesterday, but have deleted in favour of posting here, which seems more appropriate)
Thoughts? Kevin McE ( talk) 14:28, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Hello biography experts! Can anyone point me towards a guideline for how we refer to names including "von" in running text? I can't seem to find a relevant guideline. The reason I'm looking is because an editor has recently been through the article Swan Lake changing all references to the character Baron von Rothbart from "von Rothbart" to "Von Rothbart", and I'm not sure which is preferable. My instinct would be to refer simply to "Rothbart". -- Deskford ( talk) 00:11, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi! There is an edit request for the Art section of Alice Walton. I will not direct edit the page because I have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, which I disclosed on my user page and declared on Talk:Alice Walton. This section is fairly well-developed already, but there are some instances where it could be improved. I created a proposed Art section that tidies up the existing content and includes appropriate sourcing, and would appreciate some help from the community to review and update the section if they agree. Thanks, Kt2011 ( Talk · COI:Walton family) 19:56, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
No Wikipedia page on Lana Lokteff even exists. The assessment appears in the [ Palmgren] article, as written, a character assassination. Verifiable evidence needs to be provided or the assessment removed, as it is currently in violation of policy.
I am neither a WS nor a Liberal, but I am concerned when any individual or group is suppressed or denigrated without any reliable evidence. ITPhoenix ( talk) 03:02, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
Where does Wikipedia stand on people creating their own biographical entry, meticulously detailed and sourced, and yet almost hilariously amounting to a self-aggrandising plug for a career/life that is, probably not without merit, but massively overblown?
I'm prompted to ask having just come across one such preposterous biog of somebody I know. It was very evidently first created by himself nine years ago and in its early years assiduously topped up by three contributors all sharing his "family" names, including the dog. Every breath and tic of his life through 300 revisions is objectively documented and sourced, including this priceless instance (mildly adjusted by me to anonymise the detail): "He collaborated with artists X & Y to present a special edition of their "ABC" T-shirt". C'mon! He "presented" a T-shirt???!!! Whatever that means, it ain't gonna change the course of history.
The point is this entry stands as a valuable free advertisement for the man and nobody else is in a position to dispute or challenge any of his claims. Other than to pour scorn on a T-shirt. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.200.241 ( talk) 01:54, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
I started discussion at Talk:Fred Jones Jr. about the notability of Fred Jones Jr., an American entrepreneur. Please comment there. Thanks. -- George Ho ( talk) 12:37, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at Tommy Angelo (poker player) and assessing it? The article is filled with quite bit a fluff which can gradually be trimmed out, but my main concern is whether this person is Wikipedia notable enough for a stand-alone article. He doesn't seem to meet WP:AUTHOR or WP:MUSICBIO and it's a bit iffy per WP:BIO, but maybe he is notable for his accomplishments in poker. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 00:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following matter: Talk:Mary Kay Letourneau#Regarding "illicit". A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn ( talk) 14:46, 21 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi, I am a new Wikipedian, participating in a Women in Red event at the University of Edinburgh. I hope to add pages for many of the female children's book authors and illustrators who are not currently included. That said, I am myself a children's book author and illustrator and know many of the people I'd like to include. (The children's book world is a small one.) It means that I am well placed to document them all correctly. (As a doctoral student this is important to me.) However, I'm hoping this won't be a problem as far as conflicts of interest are concerned? Thank you! ElizabethDulemba ( talk) 11:31, 25 August 2017 (UTC)