User talk:Acrim1

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Your Gish Jen edit
Congrats on your thesis; however, we reserve the critical studies references to sources that have been published and are publicly available. But if your thesis includes information that might be useful for this article, please feel free to expand the article itself. Best, Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:20, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Acrim1 (talk) 20:12, 29 July 2010 (UTC)I wrote a good part of the Gish Jen Wikipedia article years ago, after I wrote my thesis... sentences in the article are taken directly from my thesis. How do you suggest I receive credit?


 * On Wikipedia, you don't take credit--having your name on the page history is credit enough, and it's assumed that your contributions can be verified through outside sources, such as those you used for your thesis. If you want to cite yourself in a footnote (not in the list of "external sources"), there is a way to do that (see the link at the end of this comment), but the external links section should be for articles, books and websites that are available to the public. (And keep in mind that some editors will not look kindly on you citing your own thesis, especially your user name is obviously the same as the thesis author's.) For more on what sources are acceptable, see Attribution/FAQ. For how to use your thesis in a footnote, see the list at Citation templates--theses and dissertations are the seecond group down. I hope that helps. Best, Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2010 (UTC)