User talk:Eduman

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Much of the text in Environmental literacy appears to have been copied from "Understanding Ocean and Coastal Literacy" by Kevin Coyle. If you are not Coyle then you should not copy his work. If you are Coyle then you should know more about Wikipedia and vanity issues. Either way we need to make some corrections. -Will Beback 09:18, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

''Hi Will Beback -- Re: environmental literacy article -- couple of options: I am happy to rewrite the article -- I wrote the orginal and have permission to copy with attribution -- the book (a peer-reviewed research compilation) is published by and available for download for free on the Internet by the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation -- meant to do a better job with that -- so I can provide better atribution without changing the article and putting in quotes or just write a new article framed a differently but with the same underlying content. ''


 * We strongly discourage people from writing their own biographies. There are three key reasons: notability (people often assume that they are more notable than they really are, or wish to become more notable), verifiability (autobiographers often include information which is not verifiable by other editors), and neutral point of view (people generally are biased in favor of themselves). "Kevin Coyle" is clearly a sufficiently notable person to have an article so that is not an issue. But what sources do we have for the facts of his life? See also Vanity and Autobiography. Cheers, -Will Beback 22:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Well taken -- I can either change or delete What do you suggest


 * It'd be swell if you can write a fresh version. Here's the location:Environmental literacy/Temp. Admins will swap that page in once the other has been cleared. As for the bio, cn you list some links here to sources about yourself that we can use to verify it? Another admin has already deleted it, but I'd be happy to re-write it from scratch-ish if there are sources. Cheers, -Will Beback 03:40, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi Will Beback

I will rewrite the environmental literacy piece from scratch -- and repost in the next couple of days -- thanks. As for the bio -- there are a couple of web sources (such as my bio in a recent Yale climate change summit) but my instinct, having looked at the Wiki policy on vanity, is there is no compelling reason to post a bio -- it was fun to pull some items together and see how they looked. I deleted it last night and I will let it rest there. Thanks for getting back. Best, Eduman.