User talk:73.241.186.27

Edits to Peter Coyote
Hello, I noticed that some of your recent edits to Peter Coyote were reverted, primarily because they did not provide a citation to a Reliable source. One of the most important parts of Wikipedia is the verifiability of information, and it is especially important in articles about living people. We do have some pages on what you can do if there is an article about you. See About you and WP:AUTO. If you are Peter (I can only see your IP), I would like to say that I have the utmost respect for you. I cannot say exactly who I am, since this is a publicly-viewable web page, but I have met you personally and a member of my family was a close friend of yours. Some of the information you entered does seem more consistent with what I heard from that friend and a letter you wrote for him. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:00, 13 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Well, thank you so much for the courtesy of this reply, I received today. I am Peter Coyote and I assumed that I was a reliable source. Since I don't often browse my own Encyclopedic entry I'd have had no idea. I'm loath to dive back into it, but would like to set the record straight. What would you suggest? You could reach out to me at peter@wdprod.com, and it might expedite a conversation. 73.241.186.27 (talk) 19:56, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * For that information to be added, there would need to be a published reliable source that can included as a reference, for purposes of verifiability. Strictly speaking in terms of policy, the person an article is about is not necessarily considered reliable, partly because of Wikipedia's conflict of interest policy. The sections at WP:COISELF and WP:SELFCITE would be the ones most relevant to this instance. I hope this helps a bit. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:59, 30 May 2022 (UTC)