User talk:AuthorDHinmon

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Hello, AuthorDHinmon, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that you appear to be using Wikipedia to promote a book you have authored. We call this citation spam and it falls under the conflict of interest policies. Please review these policies and use the article talk pages to discuss the utility of citing your own publications, ensuring other editors support the use of these sources.

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Self-published sources
Self-published sources may be considered reliable for use in Wikipedia articles "when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications". For us to use your book, "Slaves with Swag", as a source for Wikipedia articles, we need to establish you as an expert on African American slave history. Can you help with that, perhaps by listing other publications such as articles in peer reviewed journals or in any other way? Thank you. Joja lozzo  22:55, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello Jojalozzo - I understand your request. Slaves With Swag has not been released yet *Slaves With Swag, but advance copies have been issued to request online and in-print peer reviews. Until those review/articles are published, I do not have an issue removing references from Slaves With Swag, but strongly urge that my other edits remain. They are all very well documented with first-hand sources (i.e. Simmons' 1887 book and credible newspaper articles of the era). Once the Slaves With Swag reviews are published, I will follow-up with that documentation to justify the reposting of the Slaves With Swag references. Here is my bio for reference: Daryl T. Hinmon earned a Bachelor’s degree from the Central High School of Philadelphia, a Magna Cum Laude Bachelor’s degree with Highest Honors from Morgan State University and a Summa Cum Laude Master’s degree from the Florida Institute of Technology. Through all his schooling, Daryl has always loved the History discipline, but disliked the manner in which Africans and African Americans were portrayed in the curriculum. Consequently, he has performed many years of independent study to discover the rest of the story, which he shares with the rest of the world by publishing history books written from the Black perspective. He was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA.

AuthorDHinmon (talk) 13:04, 24 June 2012 (UTC)Respectfully, D. Hinmon


 * Thanks, Daryl. I agree that there's no need to remove content you've added except for the citations of your book. You are a valuable resource for Wikipedia, since someone with your familiarity with source materials can make very useful contributions based on those materials (as you have done already). I encourage you to continue editing but replace citations of Slaves with Swag with the sources you used in the book to support your findings.


 * Your CV is impressive but does not appear to me to include credentials or a publication history to indicate you are an "established expert" in African American history. Without such bona fides, it will be difficult to use your book as a source on Wikipedia. That doesn't mean your book is not a valuable resource for students of history or that Wikipedians cannot use it indirectly as a source of sources. I hope it gets good reviews and creates a buzz. I think the book addresses an important and interesting topic and I've placed an order on Amazon. Joja  lozzo  15:37, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Hello - I have removed the references and thank you for your feedback and your support. It's greatly appreciated. I will continue to update Wiki and follow back up once I've received the proper peer authentication.

AuthorDHinmon (talk) 19:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)D. Hinmon

Hello Jojalozzo - Some of my peer reviews have come back, the most prominent from Mr. Kam Williams. His glowing review of Slaves With Swag has been published in a number of publications: http://www.thecincinnatiherald.com/news/2012-07-07/Opinion/ http://aalbc.com/reviews/slaves-with-swag.html http://www.thenewjournalandguide.com/entertainment/item/1238-book-review-slaves-with-swag-the-negroes-your-history-teacher-forgot-to-mention http://www.insightnews.com/aesthetics/9230-book-review-slaves-with-swag http://newsblaze.com/story/20120704104228kamw.nb/topstory.html http://blacknj.org/group/kam-s-review/page/slaves-with-swag-book-review

Here is Mr. William's bio. I believe his endorsement satifies Wiki's third party endorsement requirement and would like to repost my earlier references. Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks, AuthorDHinmon (talk) 18:05, 13 July 2012 (UTC)Daryl


 * Daryl, My copy arrived from Amazon yesterday and I haven't had a chance to look it over carefully yet but I see that it's well footnoted and has a very valuable bibliography. I have a couple of problems with our reliance on William's reviews of your book. One is that he is not a historian but a movie critic (as far as I can tell - I think you forgot to add a link to his bio). Also while the review is published in several publications, none of them is a peer-reviewed, academic journal. His review could be used to support statements about the book's reception in the popular press (which we could use in an article about the book) but they do not address the reliability of the work. (Please read Wikipedia policy on reliability of sources.) I assume you have submitted the book for review to African-American historians and African-American academic journals and I look forward to those results. Joja  lozzo  18:30, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Yes I have. Will get back in contact when they come in. AuthorDHinmon (talk) 19:14, 13 July 2012 (UTC)Daryl