George Cabe
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Hello George Cabe. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Todd Siler, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Todd Siler has been reverted.
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Todd Siler
editHello. I noticed that on Talk:Todd Siler you stated
| “ | I will refrain from any further edits and will retire my account. | ” |
As a fellow editor, I urge you to reconsider. Just because your edits to Todd Siler were critiqued and may have been controversial, that in itself is not a reason to abandon editing altogether. It is rare to find an editor that is as passionate about a subject as you are. While some editors may minimize this passion and label it as a mere conflict of interest, I believe that to create and improve valuable informational resources, it is vital that authors and editors have more than just a small interest in the subject. There isn't one great figure in history that hasn't made at least one mistake. The most important thing is to learn from these mistakes, and to not give up. Remember this. -- JJJ (talk) 05:00, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello and thank you so very much for your kind note. As a newbie, I found the initial experience intimidating and emotionally draining. I have the highest regard for WIKIpedia and of course for the subject matter I wished to improve upon. To the credit of editors like yourself, who gave valuable, non-judgmental, concrete advice I did not give up trying to make it right and will continue to do so. If I should post a potential list of inline citations for the Siler Bio on either the article talk page or my own,(as suggested by others) how would that attract editors to take it to task when there is such a back load? I understand the nature of volunteerism and the time drain on many of you. I'm not sure what is the best approach. Your advice has been taken to heart. George Cabe (talk) 14:52, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- Probably the best thing you could do (if you don't want to add the citations yourself) is list the links / citations on the article's talk page so editors monitoring the page can review and add them to the article. You could also post a comment on Wikipedia:Editor assistance/Requests requesting assistance. However, one editor posted a somewhat similar request and was directed to discuss the matter on the article's talk page itself anyway. If you post the information on the article's talk page I will make sure to look them over. I hope this helps. -- JJJ (talk) 16:53, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
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I know the artist and was told by several editors that I should not edit. Due to some conversations early on, I was accused of being a paid editor which I am not. I've done my best to help. I'll just hope that someone will take it on. If it was acceptable for me to edit, I don't have time to learn all the markups for editing as I travel for business. Thanks for you consideration and once again kudos for all your great work on WIKI.
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