User talk:Cjb99*

Greetings,

Since I haven't written a biography of myself, I presumably haven't breached the guidelines that "I am, work for, or represent the subject of the article". However as a professional historian and as the author of the only Thunderbolt work published by a major publisher (and now with an article on the same subject published by the international peer-reviewed Journal of Australian Studies), I am self-evidently an "expert" on the subject. From that perspective, I am the ideal person to ensure that the biographies of Captain Thunderbolt and Mary Ann Bugg published in your encyclopaedia reflect the historical evidence. I am happy to quote the original documents as source-references and indeed would have done so (they are all documented on my website so it is easy enough to do) but I was deterred from doing so because a Wiki watcher had reprimanded someone who had used Wiki as a medium for publishing unsubstantiated beliefs about Thunderbolt and Mary Ann, explaining that Wiki was not a vehicle for "original research" and that the information used in the site must be published either in a scholarly journal or in a book published by a respected publisher. I thought it odd at the time but that was why I used my book (published by Allen & Unwin) and backup website documentation rather than quoting the original source references. However, it is important to add that my back-up website goes many steps further than merely providing source references; it provides copies of many of the original historical documents plus analyses of the myths and beliefs, the genesis of these myths, and the historical evidence that debunks the myths. Yet a Wiki watcher deleted at least one of the links to the web-pages and replaced it with the book reference. So I thought that book references were what you wanted.

As the latest "corrections" have been done to the page on Mary Ann Bugg, I suggest that your editors go to my myth-debunking page for Mary Ann Bugg and examine the historical evidence and source-references and determine the truth for themselves. Also, I suggest they go to the Timelines for Mary Ann as well. The same types of information are also available for Fred Ward. This information is more exhaustive and self-explanatory that a few source-references mentioned on a talk page. I have, of course, directed readers to these webpages in the biographies of Fred and Mary Ann for that very reason.

Cheers. Cjb99* (talk) 09:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, Cjb99*, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited 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. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Mary Ann Bugg & Captain Thunderbolt‎
Hello Cjb99*. Am I correct in that, as in your edit summaries you say you are  "the author of a non-fiction book just being published by Allen & Unwin about her, with my website as backup source-referencing"  and your edits are  "based on research for book Captain Thunderbolt and his Lady (Allen & Unwin, 2011)"  that therefore you self identify as "Carol Baxter", and are an adjunct lecturer in History at the University of New Englandand, and also the author of Captain Thunderbolt and his Lady (Allen & Unwin, 2011)?

If so, I hope I have not offended you with the COI-welcome above. it doesn't exactly suit the circumstance here. However if you are writing/have written a book about the subject of a Wikipedia page, and are then using information from that as a reference for your edits, this seems to me to come under Conflict of interest policy.

If you have any major edits to do on either Mary Ann Bugg, Captain Thunderbolt‎ or related pages I would suggest that you first discuss them on the talkpage for that article. You obviously know how to use edit summaries, but I would suggest that in future you make changes in stages, and clearly describe each change in the summary, possibly even detailing the original source you used for that part of your book, rather than using the book itself directly as reference. Alternatively it might be better that you don't edit these pages at all, and suggest changes or corrections on the talk pages.

I came across the 'controversy' over Bugg when I reverted a major edit to her article page, (returning it to what I shall obliquely call 'your' version). I have suspicions about the possible identity of the IP editor that made that edit, but Assuming Good Faith that's as far as I will go. ;-)

Happy Editing! Regards, - 220  of  Borg 06:09, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:54, 23 December 2015 (UTC)