User talk:Cabrooksusa

Daisy Tapley article on Wikipedia
June 4, 2021

Dear Editorial Community,

I am a professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

I have been an editor for Wikipedia entries and have donated to Wikipedia on several occasions over several years. A little over a week ago, I came across a Wikipedia article for Daisy Tapley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Tapley contributed originally by CaptJayRuffins on 11:41, 28 November 2020‎‎. The article contained material that was taken from my yet to be published biography of Tapley. While the writer, CaptJayRuffins cited my Roland Hayes book where Tapley is discussed, there is no mention of my yet to be published book on her. There are specific passages in CaptJayRuffins article published at the link where the information was obviously drawn from my manuscript.

As I am a minor editor of Wikipedia and a consistent financial supporter, my literary agent suggested that I contact you first to resolve this issue. My interest is not to delete the entry, but to have my work properly cited.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

All the best,

Christopher A. Brooks, PhD., Professor of Anthropology Virginia Commonwealth University