User talk:Jennifer.Bloomfield

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Jennifer.Bloomfield. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Gregory J. Slavonic, 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;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
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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, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. LaffyTaffer (talk) 16:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning,

There is no COI. G. Slavonic is not myself, a family member, a friend, current employer, or contributing financially to me. I am not a paid editor, nor have I added any content created by G. Slavonic himself or his representatives. While employed with The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, G. Slavonic mentioned that his Wikipedia article was out of date. G. Slavonic concluded his employment with ODVA in June 2024. These edits were made in November 2024 to ensure no COI. Jennifer.Bloomfield (talk) 17:10, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We don't care what the subject of an article has to say about himself, only what reliable sources have to say about him. Typically I would have reverted your edits as they were also completely unsourced. But as I've noted on the talk page of the article, removing all the unsourced claims on the article would leave only the lead paragraph.

I personally don't want to completely remove what are likely correct and verifiable claims. If you truthfully don't have a personal relationship with Slavonic, you appear to know quite a bit about him. It would be extremely helpful if you could cite sources to the claims his article so that it's in line with WP:BLP. In its current state, it wouldn't shock me if an administrator who stumbles upon the article would simply delete the page. LaffyTaffer (talk) 17:38, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you not removing the information, it is- as you say, all verifiable. I am brand new to editing here and have never updated a page before. I also was not finished. It is clear to me my intent to go back and site sources at completion was my error. I will go back and add the sources this evening as soon as I get off of work. I'm thankful for your feedback as someone who clearly knows their way around this site. Any additional tips you may have are welcome. Jennifer.Bloomfield (talk) 17:45, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's an understandable mistake to make, but wikipedia has extremely strict policies about what's allowed in articles about living people(see the link to BLP above). Citations need to be added when claims are made, not after. LaffyTaffer (talk) 17:51, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jennifer.Bloomfield Thanks for all the work so far! There's a lot of citations that are still necessary, especially for Slavonic's early life and military career(will likely delete most of it if it doesn't get sources in a few days), but it's already looking way better than it did earlier today. Great job! :) LaffyTaffer (talk) 21:46, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Gregory J. Slavonic

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Gregory J. Slavonic, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A bare URL error. References show this error when one of the URL-containing parameters cannot be paired with an associated title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 18:33, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This has been resolved. The citation has been corrected and a title added as requested. Jennifer.Bloomfield (talk) 21:06, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]