User talk:2601:8C3:8000:55D8:D840:63BF:B4AB:EE07

Khun Sa Article
Hello Ms. Peterson. I was the editor who wrote most of the current version of Wikipedia's article on Khun Sa. I used the articles I did, including the ones that you deleted, because they were the only ones with that information that I can find. I have known other reporters and am aware that there is a problem in professional journalism with plagiarism, especially with media companies that are larger and more corporate, and/or where journalists work in different countries than where the stories were originally published.

I can believe that you were the journalist who first reported the facts present in the article, but can you please provide sources that other editors can check to verify that? If not, can you wait to include your information until after the work has been published in 2601:8C3:8000:55D8:D840:63BF:B4AB:EE07 (talk) 01:00, 16 July 2019 (UTC)print or online? If you can provide a link to your sources, I will help you to put the information from the sources into the current article.Ferox Seneca (talk) 05:07, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Sorry--I don't know how to use this system for responding to an editor so hopefully you will get this. First, my name is spelled Petersen. So are you asking if I am the Karen Petersen that wrote the People magazine article? IF that is what you are asking, please message via Facebook Joshua Hammer, who is based in Berlin now, but was at Newsweek at the time I did the People assignment. You can also confirm with David Van Biema, who was at Time then. Both of them did the original edits on the piece before it was submitted for publication to my assignment editor at People back then. They were friends who knew the People style, which is why they helped with the advance edit on the piece. My linkedin profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenipetersen/?locale=en_US My recent literary work is easily available on the internet  "Karen Petersen poet" "Karen Petersen writer" but I haven't been a practicing journalist since 1996, so much of my work from the 80s and 90s is not uploaded unfortunately. But I do have a whole box of tear sheets in my garage lol! (I'm 65) At the moment, I am finishing a book on that Asian journey that will be delivered to my agent in NYC by this Fall. That should be out with a major publisher in probably two years at most. You have to look at the date that the People article came out. It WAS the first, and I can provide a passport photo of my visa stamp at the time which shows I was in Myanmar in September of 1989, and Thailand in August and late September. As for the facts like the amount of soldiers he had, etc. they were easily readily available at the time with a bit of research, ie Lexus/Nexus, DEA, State, etc or they were provided during my interview with the General in person that September of 1989. Does this help? Also, since my interview ran in an internationally recognized magazine owned by Time Inc, why did you remove it? That is as much a source as any of the other pieces you site, and it is first hand. The fact that I was the first Western print journalist to interview him, as verified by the People article date, and the fact I was in Burma in September 89 to see him, should be enough to merit an inclusion here wouldn't you say? Karen Petersen kushka53@gmail.com