User talk:Erika1952

April 2015
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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Erika1952. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Erika Andersen, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Innisfree987 (talk) 22:13, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you - I understand now that I shouldn’t edit the page about me. Erika1952 (talk) 14:05, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

February 2023
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 04:51, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi Liz - thanks very much for your message. I didn’t create the Wikipedia page about me, but I did try to edit it the other day to improve it. I now understand that I should n’t do that. Warmly, Erika Erika1952 (talk) 14:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi there -- to answer the unanswered question you left on the AfD -- no, the general notability criteria require not just passing citations/mentions, but reliable and sustained discussion. Please feel free to inquire further if you have questions about how to engage with Wikipedia as someone who is currently or might in the future have a mainspace article about oneself. Cheers. Lizthegrey (talk) 09:10, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, Liz. Could you give some examples of “reliable and sustained discussion,” so I can understand what might qualify? (For instance, I’ve been invited to speak on dozens of podcasts, and to write articles for HBR - one of which they’ve included in various “must-read” collections; but I don’t know if that’s what the standard means.) Warmly, Erika Erika1952

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Thank you! Erika1952 (talk) 14:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)