User talk:VivianSinclair
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Hello, VivianSinclair, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I am concerned by some of your edits to this article. Firstly, your edits, and style, are extremely similar to those of Lantoniou (talk · contribs) and you started editing this article almost as soon as that editor was cautioned over a possible conflict of interest. Can you assure us that you are not the same person, or acting in concert with that person? Secondly, this edit has a summary "personal information about author's family removed at her request"]. Wikipedia does not allow the subject of an article to dictate its content. Are you acting for or on behalf of the subject? If so, then again a conflict of interest question arises and you should not be editing this particular subject. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 18:55, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, this is Karen Taylor. I have been working on a project to update Laura Antoniou's website, her entry in the Wikipedia, and creating a Marketplace series wiki. I do have contact with her, but I'm not certain it means that I'm acting on her behalf. Laura's publisher, Cecilia Tan, encouraged me to look at her entry as sample for the type of entries suitable for Wikipedia.
I originally signed in to Wikipedia using Laura's signon information, because I'm working on her projects. The entries made on July 5th were mine as well. I did have her look at it, and the information that says "removed at her request" was certainly her input.
I've read the material for editing a biography, and thought I was following them as accurately as possible. I'm new to this, and may have not fully understood how to do the work. I did my best in finding appropriate source material, but if there's anything else I should know and didn't read properly, please let me know, thanks!
Karen Taylor aka Vivian Sinclair VivianSinclair (talk) 02:56, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for that. I'm sorry to have to say that you're in danger of violating several Wikipedia policies here. Firstly, you shouldn't have been using someone else's account, even with their permission -- see WP:ROLE. Secondly, you shouldn't be editing on behalf of another editor -- see WP:MEAT. Thirdly, you shoulsn't be editing articles on subjects with which you have a real-life connection -- see WP:COI. Fourthly, the subject of an article does not get to dictate its content -- see WP:NOTCENSORED and WP:BLP. If the subject believes that they have been libelled, then follow the instructions at WP:Libel, but don't make legalistic comments on-wiki -- see WP:NLT.
- You should probably also put this explanation at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Lantoniou. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 16:21, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
OK, since the author is still alive , any suggestions on how I can share my footnotes and references with someone else in order to expand the entry?
- I suggest putting the references and a summary of the material you propose for inclusion, or a description of material you wish to challenge and why, on the talk page of the article Talk:Laura Antoniou. Other editors may or may not choose to use it -- that's their choice. Oh, and please sign all your messages with four twiddles (~): see Wikipedia:Signatures. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 16:38, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion!! VivianSinclair (talk) 18:05, 8 July 2010 (UTC)