User talk:DareToCareElders

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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Daniel Case (talk) 18:07, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I am requesting my account be unblocked. I have used wikipedia as a reference for many years. this morning I found myself on the caregiver page. Like many other pages, I found at the bottom of this page a heading -Further reading. On other pages many books are listed on Further reading.

I followed the format I found on the caregiver/further reading text and added my book - listing it as the other 17 books I found listed, giving author name,(year published)Book Name, page count, and ISBN. Cheryl Carmichael (2011) Dare to Care - Caring for our elders, 196 pp. ISBN 978-1-4620-3146-7

The content of this book is more current than others listed (2011) and is very useful to those Wikipedia readers looking for information about caregiving.

I also followed the See also links and found several other Wikipedia pages that specifically spoke to the content found in my book.

If I need to change my user name to my name Cheryl Carmichael - I would be happy to do that.

I am not spamming - I am sharing. I put the name of my book under the heading of Further reading, which it is. I put the name of my book under topics that my book discusses.

Please reply - I do not have your knowledge of Wikipedia - but I do know caregiving and very much believe in my mission to help family caregivers keep their elders living in their own homes. Sincerely - Cheryl Carmichael, author

DareToCareElders (talk) 21:10, 11 March 2013 (UTC)Cheryl Carmichael, author DareToCareElders (talk) 15:49, 12 March 2013 (UTC) Cheryl Carmichael, author DareToCareElders (talk) 15:55, 12 March 2013 (UTC)Cheryl Carmicheal, author
 * Adding links to something of your own does usually count as spamming, no matter how well intentioned. You say you have a "mission to help family caregivers..." - that doesn't bode well for your case for unblock. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a soapbox WP:SOAPBOX. Peridon (talk) 17:42, 12 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Put it this way - if your book is a reliable source that adds depth to the article, trust that other editors will eventually add it. You, as the author, have a clear conflict of interest tied up in the addition of that book to the list, and so cannot be unbiased about its inclusion. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 14:50, 13 March 2013 (UTC)


 * To be clear; you are pledging to avoid any conflict of interest editing? Kuru   (talk)  14:12, 22 November 2014 (UTC)