User talk:Allisondstewart

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Hello, Allisondstewart, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! RadioFan (talk) 00:35, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
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Sydney Games cost overrun
The section in 2000 Summer Olympics on costs overruns has been removed. Please dont use papers you have authored as references, especially those which do any editorial oversight. This causes concerns about conflict of interest.--RadioFan (talk) 00:37, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Having just removed the same info from about a dozen other articles I can only reiterate what RadioFan has already said - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 22:37, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Cost overrun in the Games
Hi RadioFan and Basement12 - thank you both for your comments on the additions that I made to the Games pages. As this was my first Wikipedia edit, I was not aware of the restrictions on posting articles. The article that I referenced is by Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, and I acted as a Research Assistant. It is the only example of a wide-ranging comparable study across Games and as such is the only current source that can be cited. I can, of course, add details about our sources if that would be useful (although there are many of them). Other academics have verified our work and one tried to add the cost overrun summary back on to the Sydney 2000 page, but it was again deleted, even though they are not affiliated with the authors. Professor Flyvbjerg is a known expert in the area of cost overruns on megaprojects, so should qualify to have his work listed as a source on the site. Please let me know how we can add this information that has been removed. Allisondstewart (talk) 12:29, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * A good starting point for you as a new editor would be to take a look at the guidelines at Verifiability, the key point of which is that "Verifiability, and not truth, is one of the fundamental requirements for inclusion in Wikipedia"; if the paper is unpublished (that's how I understood it) then it is not available for a reader to verify the claims made. There may also be issues around WP:Undue weight (another quideline that you may wish to read) involved even if Professor Flyvbjerg is a known expert, particularly by placing the section so prominently near the top of articles. It may be possible to get around both of these issues by better incorporating the the information into the articles where relevant, with the sources that were used to compile the paper as references. Just be careful to keep WP:SELFCITE (yet another guideline I'm afraid) in mind. If you have any other questions please leave me a message at my talk page. Thanks - Ba se me nt 12  (T.C) 17:29, 27 July 2012 (UTC)