User talk:Annecoldiron

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Hello, Annecoldiron, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Anne Coldiron, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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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! Nat Gertler (talk) 13:47, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... hello! Please help a newbie! A very nice note from Mr Nat Gertler came to me just now informing me that I may have inadvertently committed a violation of your rules. (I am unfamiliar with Wikipedia editing, and the guidelines are very complicated and extensive, which of course is good, but a bit complex for a new user.) Here is the problem: someone let me know that a Wikipedia page about me had factually incorrect information listed about me---the wrong job, the wrong workplace, the wrong publications, the wrong web page. Yikes! So I quickly corrected it today. But then Mr Gertler let me know that I may have committed a conflict of interest violation, as people are not supposed to edit their own pages.

I am not sure what to do. The record needs to be corrected. I stuck strictly to the facts. I apologise, but I don't know how else to correct these factual errors. Can you help? Otherwise, perhaps we should just remove the entire page? I am certainly not a famous person by any measure, just a professor. But even an non-famous person doesn't want incorrect things to be on Wikipedia about her, as I'm sure you understand. Thank you in advance, Anne Coldiron (username is Annecoldiron; you can reach me at aebc@st-andrews.ac.uk)

Annecoldiron (talk) 14:03, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Don't worry - your violation was not egregious. While your intent was fine, as you can imagine we have many folks who would love to add to their article that all their books were bestsellers (in Finlay, Kentucky) or that they are the sex machine who drives all the women wild, so it's best to discourage people from editing their own page. Your edits are already being looked at and smoothed over a but by other editors, but are generally fine. However, in the future, instead of editing your own page, the best practice is to go to Talk:Anne Coldiron, which is a page that exists solely to discuss the editing of the page about you. There, just leave a suggestion noting things you think should be added or corrected on the page, and some other, uninvolved editor will likely soon review it and implement the aspects of your change that they think are appropriate.


 * And if you have any other questions or anything else with which you need help, feel free to leave a message on my user talk page - you'll find a link to it right here: Nat Gertler (talk) 14:19, 22 September 2017 (UTC)