User talk:Jburroway

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Please help me with...how to correct or have corrected my own Wikipedia page (Janet Burroway) so that the flags saying "This Page Needs Help" can be removed. The person who flagged the page finds it prejudiced in my favor and overlong. Ok, I disagree, also don't mind if it's edited, but the flag itself is embarrassing. I've said this on the talk page for the entry and also on an edit page of some sort. You see that I'm new to this process (but have 50+ years of publishing behind me...)

Jburroway (talk) 21:03, 12 January 2016 (UTC)Janet Burroway[reply]

I'd strongly advise you not to edit the article itself; your conflict of interest would make it very difficult for you to maintain a neutral point of view when writing about yourself. If you want to propose specific changes, the talk page is a much better place to do so. The article indeed needs a lot of work, and I'd say you can help best by pointing out additional references that we could use to improve it. As it stands many of its sources are problematic. For example, an "unpublished interview" - there's no way for our readers to verify what that might say. Or a personal email you sent - same issue, and Wikipedia vastly prefers - and for some statements requires - secondary sources, others writing about you, instead of primary sources such as your own writings or your personal website. Articles about you published by newspapers or literary magazines are the kinds of sources we're looking for - not interviews, though, since those are again you speaking about yourself, not third-party coverage.

If you disagree with the page being prejudiced in your favour, just count occurrences of "praise", "rave reviews", "acclaimed" and so on, and compare the number to a well-developed article on one of the literary greats - say, Ernest Hemingway or Doris Lessing. You'll find that your article reads as if you were more critically acclaimed than those Nobel Prize winners - and I think you'll admit that's not quite accurate. Huon (talk) 22:31, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I am trying to get to my Wikipedia page as edited by TeriEmbrey; I have several corrections to make. But I'm not sure his/her edits show up on the article that appears when I just pull it up on the web, or how to get to it if not, and where to make my comments. Sorry.

Please help me with...

JburrowayJburroway (talk) 16:47, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Jburroway Jburroway (talk) 16:47, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, if you want to see the article about yourself, I think you mean Janet Burroway. Remember that as articles can be edited by anyone, the version as edited by TeriEmbrey may not be the one showing up as the current version. See the page's history for more information. If you want to make corrections, I would (I know you've probably already been told this) advise you propose edits at the talk page first, as you are the article subject. The talk page is where you make comments anyway. If you have any queries about that user's edits, I think you probably should ask them, see their talk page here. Thanks. Seagull123 Φ 18:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am working on your requested edits now. I have found some of the additional references you had mentioned.

The detail about The Beauty Operators being made into a TV movie came from the International Movie Database's biography (www.imdb.com). You may need to contact someone there to get your biography there fixed. TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:07, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edits have been made. Please let me know if there is anything else that needs to be fixed. TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]