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Hello Ginasmith888. 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 Byte (magazine), you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
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Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Gina Smith (author). Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Grayfell ( talk) 00:54, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello? Did you receive my previous message about editing your own article, and editing with a conflict of interest? Grayfell ( talk) 04:14, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Yes, thank you, I didn't realize that, provided I added plenty of hard references, an autobiographical addition was a problem. I saw someone started a Wikipedia article about me just yesterday and was trying to ethically add to it. So much of my career in early tech journalism and dot com happened JUST before all this material was online. Of course, I understand the reason for the policy, though. I see notes therein that say "citation needed" next to my positions at PC Week and PC/Computing in the early 1990s.
This is fairly well documented, through this article on Ziff Davis from Wired: http://www.wired.com/1994/05/ziff/
I won't be the one to add it, though : )
Thank you for your attention. It's nice to know how rigorous the standards are among the Wikipedia editors .. gs Ginasmith888 ( talk) 22:44, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Ah, that's helpful. And that leads me to a question, which applies really not just to this entry but in fact to all Wikipedia articles about living people. To your point about the two radio shows -- or aNewDomain Media, which I own -- if there are no articles that specifically list start and end dates, then what could possibly be used as a citation? For instance, if you are editing an article about someone who claims to own a company but no press report exists that details ownership, would Wikipedia need corporate registration docs, whois listings, about pages? As I said, my question applies both to this entry and to all others, too. I never knew this before.
Oh, re the radio show -- there were two -- with two startdates -- but they were the same show with different syndicators (SNP and ABC News) and, so, different names and start dates. No wonder that was confusing : ) Anyway, thank you! I ought to write an article about this effort.
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Hello Ginasmith888. 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 Byte (magazine), you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about following the reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.
If you are very close to a subject, here are some ways you can reduce the risk of problems:
Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.
For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. — EncMstr ( talk) 17:42, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Gina Smith (author). Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Grayfell ( talk) 00:54, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Hello? Did you receive my previous message about editing your own article, and editing with a conflict of interest? Grayfell ( talk) 04:14, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Yes, thank you, I didn't realize that, provided I added plenty of hard references, an autobiographical addition was a problem. I saw someone started a Wikipedia article about me just yesterday and was trying to ethically add to it. So much of my career in early tech journalism and dot com happened JUST before all this material was online. Of course, I understand the reason for the policy, though. I see notes therein that say "citation needed" next to my positions at PC Week and PC/Computing in the early 1990s.
This is fairly well documented, through this article on Ziff Davis from Wired: http://www.wired.com/1994/05/ziff/
I won't be the one to add it, though : )
Thank you for your attention. It's nice to know how rigorous the standards are among the Wikipedia editors .. gs Ginasmith888 ( talk) 22:44, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
Ah, that's helpful. And that leads me to a question, which applies really not just to this entry but in fact to all Wikipedia articles about living people. To your point about the two radio shows -- or aNewDomain Media, which I own -- if there are no articles that specifically list start and end dates, then what could possibly be used as a citation? For instance, if you are editing an article about someone who claims to own a company but no press report exists that details ownership, would Wikipedia need corporate registration docs, whois listings, about pages? As I said, my question applies both to this entry and to all others, too. I never knew this before.
Oh, re the radio show -- there were two -- with two startdates -- but they were the same show with different syndicators (SNP and ABC News) and, so, different names and start dates. No wonder that was confusing : ) Anyway, thank you! I ought to write an article about this effort.