FredericaMG

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, FredericaMG. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Frederica Mathewes-Green, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 21:48, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, Guerillero. Someone unknown created a Wikipedia page for me long ago, and it has long had a note saying that it needs more citations. There was nothing else in the original entry to cite, so I added more details and linked to them.

I'm not selling anything, and I'm not doing anything controversial. I'm self-employed (a writer). I'm just completing the original entry, fleshing it out with more detail. 2600:6C5C:6800:32DF:7D23:5423:7CDD:48D0 (talk) 22:26, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

The template gets at most of what I was trying to get across. Writing about yourself is discouraged for a variety of reasons. -- Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 22:40, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, by "the template," do you mean this page, "Managing a conflict of interest"?

I understand why Wikipedia needs to have rules in place, so that someone doesn't bend an entry to reflect a bias--especially when there is a controversy involved.

Tell me how we can accomplish what we need to do: the original entry was very short, and it needed more citations. Since I'm the person with the dates, titles, etc, I seemed to be the most knowledgeable person to update it. Is there another way to solve this problem?

There's no controversy, and no money to be made. I'm almost 70 and summing up my career. FredericaMG (talk) 22:49, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

After sleeping on it, I can see that the whole tone is off (in what I wrote). Perhaps you could select whatever you think is relevant from it, to flesh out the earlier version some more.

I wasn't sure what "needs more citations" means but I guessed it meant there needed to be more links & footnotes? Which required there to be more content (things I'd done) that citations could be given for. FredericaMG (talk) 12:33, 26 May 2022 (UTC)