User talk:CathyAMorgan

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Catherine Morgan article
Please note that I have corrected my own entry on strictly factual matters. My date of birth was wrongly given twice (should be 10th Sept not 9th Oct - UK style dates have been misread), and two professional honours omitted. There is no compromise of neutrality as these are strictly factual matters. I have no intention of editing more generally for Wikipedia, but I do wish any reports on me to be factually accurate. CathyAMorgan (talk) 11:33, 21 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello. I'm very sorry that you have found errors in your article. However, Wikipedia operates on a policy of citing sources, especially when editing a biography of a living person. What this means it that in order to correct the date of birth listed on Catherine Morgan, we need a reliable source that gives your full date of birth so it can be referenced. Simply stating that you are the person whom the article is about is not good enough (though I have no reason to not believe you). An editor could claim to be George Clooney, while in reality they could be Bob Smith from Basingstoke.
 * Would it be possible for you to add your date of birth to one of your online profiles? Perhaps to your page on the All Souls website. Or could you point me to somewhere that you DOB is already listed? In the meantime, I have edited the article so that it now states that you were born in 1961 without a day or month. I shall also look to see if I can find references to back up the honours that you added so I can re-add them. Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk 16:06, 21 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Well, this article was created without my knowledge or consent - and with no attempt to contact me - so please understand that I am less than pleased at the whole episode. My strong preference would be for the entire thing to be removed, but I accept that if a profile is to be created it is better done accurately.
 * With regard to my identity, I am currently logged on to the University of Oxford and using my College e-mail - all traceable. If you go to my College profile you will find the Archaeological Society of Athens listed, and the 2014 award from the DAI is listed in their e-Jahrsbericht 2014 (p.4) which you can find on www.dainst.org.
 * With regard to my date of birth - where did you get October? I can only conclude that someone read 10/9/61 US style, even though, as you acknowledge I am British.  In fact I find publishing my date of birth and age unduly intrusive. I will accept retaining the year since this is in the Catalogue data of my books so already in the public domain, but please leave it at this and remove my age from my summary profile.
 * Perhaps I should ask now for the complaint procedure as I find this whole exercise intrusive. CathyAMorgan (talk)


 * Articles on Wikipedia are created for individuals who are considered to be notable. Following the notability requirements for a academic, you were found to be notable because (1) you are a professor at a "major institution of higher education and research" and (2) through being Director of the British School at Athens ("held a highest-level elected or appointed academic post at a major academic institution"). There is no requirement to gain your consent for the creation of the article: as long as someone is notable enough and there are reliable sources for details about their work and life, an article may be written about them. In fact if someone tries to get an article written about themselves it is often that case that this won't happen because they don't satisfy notability requirements.
 * I am very sorry that feel that this article is intrusive. However, there is nothing included that cannot be found elsewhere in the internet or in written sources. There are strict rules about details that can be added to biographies of living people and there is a specific requirement that all details should be referenced. There are also restrictions on what can be added (for example, details of children are kept to a minimum with only the number of first names listed if this is prominently available elsewhere or just the number of children).
 * I am not sure where you date of birth came from. As you have said, it is possible that someone read the date incorrectly when adding it to the article. I shall add a note in the article stating not to add day/month to your date of birth so that it remains just the year.
 * Thank you for the references. I shall add those to the article as soon as.
 * Like I said above, I am very sorry if you find having a Wikipedia article intrusive. I hope it goes some way to reassuring you that the information included only comes from reliable sources or official biographies about (presumably you have some control over their contents). If you have any more problems with information added to the article that you would like to be removed, please add a comment on the article's talk page (<--- linked here).
 * If you would like to make a complaint about the content of the article (for example, if you believe it has been written with bias or there is information that you wish to be hidden permanently) please make a comment here and someone will be able to help.
 * You may also contact someone by email (the Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team who are the closest that Wikipedia has to a customer complaints department) here. The VRT are trusted Wikipedia editors and all messages to them will be confidential.
 * Please do ask if you have any more questions. Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk 18:29, 21 February 2016 (UTC)