User talk:Ipavlidis

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Ioannis Pavlidis, 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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 * Thank you for your message. Indeed, I have a conflict but the article you had about me was incomplete and poorly done. I can finish the entire piece and then you can edit it or reject it. Please let me finish it first and then you will be the judge. It will be based on solid primary and secondary sources. I am about 1/3 the way there and all the secondary sources are still missing.
 * Best regards,
 * Ioannis Ipavlidis (talk) 08:54, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I won't be personally interfering with your editing except to fix templates (like I did with the infobox, which should only have the first letter of each word capitalized in your name). I'd appreciate for you to ping me or leave a message on your talk page once you are done so I can help fix minor errors or copy edit the wording, however. Good luck editing and have a good week! — Ixtal ( T / C ) &#8258; Non nobis solum. 09:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Will do. Thanks much! Ipavlidis (talk) 09:24, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Ixtal, I finished my editing on this piece. I tried to be as objective as possible and supported everything with a plethora of secondary sources from news articles, books, blogs, and other sources. Please take a look and edit further, as you see fit. Let me also know if you need any help from me or if you have any questions.
 * I pllan to work next on a Wiki article on Science Convergence, which I noticed is not well covered in Wikipedia. Ipavlidis (talk) 10:23, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Ixtal,
 * I finished with the editing of the page two weeks ago and sent you a message to that effect. I am reaching out again. I believe the new page conforms to the Wikipedia guidelines about biographies of scientists. Please take a look and let me know your feedback. If you find the new page acceptable, I was wondering if you can remove those warning template messages from 2018, which are no longer applicable. If not, please advise what further needs to be done and I will do it. Thanks! - Ioannis Ipavlidis (talk) 02:19, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I apologize, Ipavlidis, I had by accident marked reviewing your article as done on my bullet journal. I've added some templates to the page that indicate what problems remain. I'm pretty sure you're notable enough to have a page so I removed the notability tag. The main issue that remains with your article is the use of primary sources (i.e. your academic papers) and the use of editorializing language.
 * As an example, let's compare your article with that of another computer science academic figure in Patrick Hanrahan. You can see in his page his career section is very concise and neither cites directly nor describes in depth his academic papers. With this in mind, your career section (which I have titled "Research" based on its contents) describes your research with a lot of detail with only the research itself as a source. As an encyclopedia we must use a particular style when covering subjects where we greatly summarize information in reliable sources. So for example, if one of your papers is covered in a national publication (such as the Reuters Health or NSF articles) then we can include the information contained in these publications about your work (and nothing more).
 * Editorializing language can be found in sentences like "Pavlidis first articulated his innovative ideas for [...] in his visionary paper [...]". A more appropriated tone would be "Pavlidis first articulated his ideas for [...] in the paper [...]". If an independent source called the ideas "innovative" and the paper "visionary", we could then include such description only by quoting said source with attribution.
 * I recommend you try and find more independent sources describing your research and adding them to the page, as if not such content is not WP:DUE and will likely be removed. However, it is perfectly fine (and almost expected) for researchers to have short articles on themselves without much text on their work. — Ixtal ( T / C ) &#8258; Non nobis solum. 08:15, 16 May 2023 (UTC)