Talk:Dan Rottenberg

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As requested, I've added references to the biography page I recently created about myself. I hope this will qualify the biography for inclusion.

I'm a longtime admirer and user of Wikipedia. I'm also the author of ten books on diverse subjects, on some of which I am the leading authority. I would like to improve Wikipedia entries where I find errors, but I'm new to the editing process— I only got into it this month. So thanks, Wiki editors, for your patience and forbearance.

One general observation: As requested, I've provided citations for my personal biography. But the fact is, I was the primary source of most of the information in those citations, and I suspect the same holds true for articles written about most living people. So the policy of requiring people to footnote their own biographies, while surely well-intentioned, strikes me as pointless.

Dan Rottenberg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danredmount (talk • contribs) 21:35, 29 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Oh dear, no. You've missed the point -- which is that we also have a policy that people should not be the ones to write their own biographies. You can surely correct factual errors in your own biography, but you shouldn't be the one to have started it. And no, most articles about living people are not written by the subjects. DS (talk) 13:49, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Improving list of associated publications
Given the long list of publications that are associated with the subject, I think it would be more appropriate to list these either as a proper list and/or in their own subheading. Let me know if anyone has thoughts on the matter. Ontheroad1957 (talk) 19:45, 9 August 2017 (UTC)