User talk:Bthomson

July 2009

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Franklyn Harvey

Hello, I'm Toddy1. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Franklyn Harvey, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include citations for each item and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave message on Talk:Franklyn Harvey. Thank you. -- Toddy1 (talk) 18:34, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am rather concerned because the text you added to the article on Franklyn Harvey appears to be part of a resumé. Adding copyrighted material to Wikipedia is not permitted.-- Toddy1 (talk) 18:34, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is the text msg I sent to C.Fred on "talk" earlier today. I'm pleased at least someone from Wikipedia at least raised this with me, the author of this page, as I wasn't told back in February that it was deleted. Do you have any suggestions on how I could present Franklyn's contributions to international cooperation without "violating" Wikipedia's "rules"?

I was surprised as the de-facto executor of Franklyn Harvey's estate to discover the other day that you have deleted my catalogue of contributions Franklyn made under the Publications heading of his page. You seem to have implied that they were not sourced. Yet you have not removed two of the three publications above my addition which do not have links and therefore presumably "not sourced". I have copies of all of these referred works/contracts and many of them are already stored in the archives of Concordia University in Montreal. They are not digitized and not online and I don't believe the organizations he worked with would necessarily want their internal documents made public. The list is an effort to demonstrate the broad impact Franklyn had on a wide range of NGOs and was taken from a copy of his resume that he distributed while working as a consultant. I have added the list again and would ask that if you are going to delete them you at least advise me of your action and suggest why you are taking such action. Bthomson (talk) 18:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia articles are based on reliable published sources.

The works in the publications section do not need citations, because they have been published, and therefore act as sources for their own existence. (One of the strange de facto "rules" that Wikipedia has is that it does not allow citations to Amazon - even though Amazon is most useful for verifying the publication details of books.)

If Concordia University's archives published a catalogue of Franklyn Harvey's reports, etc., you could use information in that catalogue to write a section for the Wikipedia article, giving appropriate citations to the catalogue.

If you want to write an article about Franklyn Harvey's work based on unpublished material, Wikipedia is not the place to publish it. But if a magazine published it, then the information in the magazine article could be used as a source for statements in Wikipedia.-- Toddy1 (talk) 04:35, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Bthomson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Franklyn Harvey, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Since you have declared a conflict of interest, as the "de-facto executor of Franklyn Harvey's estate", it is inappropriate for you to be directly editing the article. Given your unhappiness at not being warned over your previous edit, I am obliged to leave the message above. —C.Fred (talk) 19:38, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]