User talk:Grahamcoxon

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On editing one's own Wikipedia article...
Hi there,

Although I cannot be sure, I'd be willing to bet you are indeed the real Graham Coxon. I'm a Blur fan, so this is quite a privilege. Welcome to Wikipedia.

I just thought I should point out a few things about editing your article. A central policy of Wikipedia is that facts added should be verifiable (see WP:VERIFY). In short, what it means is that we generally require every statement to be backed up by a link to a reliable source.

You will now be thinking "what? But I am Graham Coxon!" And I realise this will be rather annoying information to learn, but rest assured you are far from the first person to edit their own Wikipedia entry and be confronted with this uncomfortable situation.

In short, the content you're adding may get removed by another editor because - and he would be officially correct to do this - your statements lack references. Indeed I would be correct to remove the statements... but I'm not going to, because I believe.

There is a solution, however. I see you have your own website. You could put up a biography on it containing everything you want in your Wikipedia entry and then that can be used as the reliable source for the Wikipedia entry. It's a bit of a faff, I know. And it may be that nobody comes along and fiddles with your article content, so you might want to see if that happens before going to the trouble.

If you do post your own official biography elsewhere you should mark it clearly as either in the public domain (meaning anyone can copy it, including for Wikipedia purposes) or use this Wikipedia friendly copyright license: Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License. Because if you place (c) Graham Coxon on the biography then anyone copying any of it would be in breach of your copyright.

Sorry to bombard you with irritating information, but I thought I should let you know. I'm basically preparing you for if the worst happens and someone starts removing the additions you are making to the article. You may want to visit it periodically to see what's going on. I'll keep an eye on it too. It should all come right in the end. Take care. --bodnotbod (talk) 11:50, 25 August 2011 (UTC)