User talk:EleniPs

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Marianna Vardinogiannis, which 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.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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On adding the birth year
Eleni!

I appreciate that you want to add your boss's birthyear to the article, and that, as you say in your edit summary, you're willing to send in some form of proof. However, Wikipedia aims to have statements that are verifiable (click here for the Wikipedia guideline on verifiability.) You know how people think you can't trust Wikipedia? We don't want them to have to, so we want to give them a link they can follow, or perhaps somewhere to go look something up in a library, where they can verify the claim that we make. It's better for us to do without a piece of information like that rather than have it be non-verifiable, particularly since there has been different birth years in the article for much of the article's history (1937 and 1947, at varying times.) --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:48, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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 * Responding to the question in this edit summary, no, you can't use the Greek Wikipedia page as a reference, because Wikipedia does not consider itself a reliable source. If it did, we wouldn't need a reference for anything, we could just say it's true because we say it's true! But you can use the Greek press, as long as it's a reliable paper. The reference does not need to be in English.... but it should be online, so that we can verify what you're saying --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:28, 3 June 2020 (UTC)