On 15/02/2019 19:37, Pine W wrote:
When I read your article I am concerned about this statement: "Some advice
for Olivia Colman: rather than “sending an e-mail to Wikipedia”, she can
edit Wikipedia herself, like everyone else". That comes across to me as
encouraging violation of English Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guideline
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest>. Can you
explain why you encouraged directly editing Wikipedia instead of placing an
edit request on the talk page or sending an email to OTRS?
Hey Pine,
Thanks for your comment and careful reading. My piece of advice for
Olivia is suposed to be rhetorical : I doubt she would have to modifiy
herself her own page, as it's been proven that her birthdate was plain
right all along the page history. My point was more to highlight the
fact that a large number of people believe that a supposedly uncorrect
fact on Wikipedia cannot be modified easily and one has to "send an
email". And that journalists that publish this nonsense aren't aware
either of the "anyone can edit" part of Wikipedia (in 2019!).
Now, if a conflict of interest policy prevents you to provide a reliable
secondary source about a factual point such as your own birthdate and
edit Wikipedia accordingly, I find it would be a harsh conflict of
interest policy. As a matter of fact WP : COI does not prevent to
directly edit oneself : it suggests (along with your recommandations) to
disclaim it in the edit summary. (And the "dealing with articles about
yourself" link provided by Avery (thanks for that) is also open to that
possibility. I would even find it harsh to argue that such an edit would
"undermine the interests of the encyclopedia".
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