User talk:Amismyth

Conflict of interest: Alison Smyth (actress)
Hello, Amismyth. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Alison Smyth (actress), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the edit COI template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see );
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see );
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Vegantics (talk) 22:25, 19 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * Will you please let me know what exactly made me receive this message? Thanks. Amismyth (talk) 19:13, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello!
 * I added this notice to your page because you appear to have a relationship with Alison Smyth. Your username is the same as the article subject's last name and you have only ever edited the article about Alison Smyth. Additionally, your edits tend to be promotional in tone and include the addition of unreferenced personal information, such as the subject's date and place of birth. If you do have a personal relationship with Alison Smyth, please refer to the conflict of interest guideline linked above. I am also happy to answer any additional questions. Thanks!
 * Vegantics (talk) 16:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * Yes, I am Alison Smyth. And I updated my profile awhile back because my name was spelled incorrectly and I didn't want people to know how old I am (it can effect my work as an actress).
 * Am I allowed to edit my own information? I recently won another award online and would like to add that to my page.  I can provide a reference website to the award.
 * Thanks,
 * Alison Amismyth (talk) 01:29, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying! Generally speaking you should not directly edit an article about yourself because you have a bias that can impede Wikipedia's mission to be encyclopedic and neutral. However, you absolutely can suggest edits to other editors (see more here: WP:AUTOPROB).
 * Regarding things like your date of birth, if there is a reliable, secondary source citation, you should not remove it just because you do not want it there. However, there was never any citation for your date of birth so it was appropriate to have removed (see more here: WP:DOB).
 * If you'd like to go to the talk page Talk:Alison_Smyth_(actress), you can state your reason for not editing (that you are the subject) and include the change that you would like made along with the citation. From there an unbiased editor will take a look and implement the change or explain why they can't. I'll flag your talk page to notify me when you make requests, so that they are implemented in a timely fashion.
 * If you see something in the article about you that is factually untrue or otherwise uncontroversial, you can remove it directly, but you should explain your reasoning on the talk page so that other editors do not revert it. (Again, see WP:AUTOPROB.) It may be good to look through WP:BLP to help explain how any edits you want to make align with Wikipedia's policies for living people.
 * At this point, I'm going to take a pass through the article about you and do a check for encyclopedic tone, since there has been editing with a conflict of interest. If you have any objections to the edits that I make, they should be discussed on the talk page. I hope this helps, please let me know if you have any questions.
 * Vegantics (talk) 13:39, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks for explaining all of this to me. Moving forward I will state any updates to my career (like the award) in the Talk section.
 * Are you able to update me after checking my article? Amismyth (talk) 15:07, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sure, I can post on your user talk page regarding future edits. I did a pass on the article about you to revise for tone and consistency with Wikipedia policies. I haven't removed the citations, but a heads up that BroadwayWorld is not considered a reliable source (see WP:RSPS for more info) so I would discourage you from using it as a reference.
 * Vegantics (talk) 15:15, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Okay, I understand. Please remove that first Broadwayworld citation as it is not considered reliable.  Is it alright to leave the other Broadwayworld.com citation, as it is a review of a production?
 * Another question, the new award/title I was going to post is from Broadwayworld.com. If this is considered an unreliable source is it better to not have these award/titles in my article?
 * I'd like my article to have the tone and consistency of Wikipedia policies. I'm a big user and fan of Wikipedia and want to be a part of it's integrity. Amismyth (talk) 16:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
 * If Broadwayworld is the one administering the award I would consider it a reliable source, but for articles acting as reviews of productions or written about you they should not be included.
 * Vegantics (talk) 20:12, 10 April 2024 (UTC)