User talk:Capebobholt

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 03:22, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

removal by "materialscientist" of my autobiography
He did so on the ground that, as noted above, "encyclopedic content must be verifiable." It had not occurred to me that an autobiography would need external verification. I now realize that I can indeed provide it: my previously published autobiographical writings.

I am not familiar enough with the rules to be sure whether my recording the following data here will suffice to provide the needed verification. Please let me know if I should supply it in another form or locality.

My first and most extended published autobiography is: Holt, R. R. (1993). An exploratory study of life: Progress report. In C. E. Walker (Ed.), A history of clinical psychology in autobiography, Vol. 2 (pp.159-229). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Here is a second autobiographical writing: Holt, R. R. (2005a). A life-long attempt to understand and assess personality. Journal of Personality Assessment, 84(1), 3-15. Also in S. N. Strack and B. N. Kinder (Eds.), Personality theory and assessment: Autobiographical perspectives. New York: Springer.

Please let me know if these references are not sufficient to overcome materialscientist's objections, and if I need to resubmit my MS. I attempted to append my Curriculum Vitae and personal Bibliography in case they might be helpful in determining my qualifications for an extended entry in Wikipedia, but did not succeed. If they would be of value, please let me know how I might download them. I might just add that I am now 98 years old, and would like to be assured that a fair account of my life and works remains after my death, in Wikipedia.

Robert R. Holt Capebobholt (talk) capebobholt@comcast.net


 * Hi Robert, per my message below, writing of autobiographies is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia: please see Autobiography for more, but in short: "We have biographies here, not autobiographies. Avoid writing or editing an article about yourself, other than to correct unambiguous errors of fact". It's definitely not appropriate to add your CV or bibliography, and your attempt to upload these didn't work in any case, only introducing formatting errors in the article which I've now corrected. My advice to you would be to discuss changes to the article concerned on the talk page for the article (Talk:Robert R. Holt), rather than on your user talk page. If you propose some changes there, and provide references to reliable sources, then I'm sure fellow editors will be happy to help make these changes. This will help reduce your conflict of interest, and also help you format the references correctly. As a courtesy, I'll copy your above message over to the article's talk page for wider awareness. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 06:56, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Autobiographies
Please do not write or add to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. └ UkPaolo/talk┐ 06:50, 12 January 2016 (UTC)