User talk:Hapimeses
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Warhammer edits[edit]
Hi,
I noticed you made edits to Warhammer related articles: List of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay publications as well as Sigmar, Ulric (Warhammer) and Ragnarites.
First off: thank you for contributing!
That said, there are a few peculiar Wikipedia policies that you might not be aware of.
First off, Wikipedia discourages a business owner from editing the article on his or her business - this is called COI, or Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Tim Cook on Apple, for example. The mere suspicion an employee or lobbyist would tweak Wikipedia articles for personal gain is enough - nobody is accusing you of actually doing anything shady.
What this basically means is that if you plan on editing more articles related to WFRP, you could really benefit from declaring your affilation openly, by editing your user page and type {{UserboxCOI||1=First Wikipedia article title|2=Second Wikipedia article title ...}}, then click "save".
I have already gone ahead and listed Hapimeses on the List of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay publications article's talk page, so feel free to do nothing right now - this is mostly advice for any future WFRP-related edits of yours.
Furthermore, I noticed you changed the attributation of Tome of Salvation. And not only that, you changed it to attribute yourself.
The actual edit might be 100% or even 200% correct, but Wikipedia is strangely enough about verifiability, not fact.
What this means is that everything claimed by Wikipedia must come from a reputable source. The problem here is that if you google Tome of Salvation, such as Amazon or RPG Now PDF links, half the sources claim Robert was the lead, the other half mentions a gaggle of four devs - where you're only one. What that means is that you are likely to get reverted since editors cannot point to a reputable source for the claim that Andy Law wrote it. Many many creative people have fallen in this "wikipedia trap" and you're far from the first to go "but I know for sure, since I did it". That is a fact, but it needs verifiability to go on Wikipedia. Read more on how Wikipedia differs from "real life": Wikipedia:Verifiability.
Finally, attributing yourself without disclosing this brings us back to COI, or Conflict of Interest. (Even if you do find a page which authoritatively claims Andy Law was the lead on Tome of Salvation, actually adding this info is best left to... well, anyone else than this Law fellow. Again, Tim Cook is the editor least wanted as a contributor to the Tim Cook article. That's just how Wikipedia rolls.)
All in all, I hope all of this doesn't make you rage-quit Wikipedia, and instead that you see this for what it is: a helpful hint that might save you some grief in the future, coming from one of your biggest map fans :-) CapnZapp (talk) 10:19, 5 February 2019 (UTC)