User talk:Jennifer McLerran

D.Y. Begay - unreferenced, original research and/or promotional content not permitted in biographies
Hello, and thank you for your interest in D.Y. Begay, an article I created. And thank for your interest in women artists and Native American artists! D.Y. Begay is certainly a wonderful example of both.

! I wanted to give you a heads up that I will be removing the content you added, and moving it to the article talk page, where for now, it can still be accessed. Please don't take it that your efforts are unappreciated, they certainly are, but unfortunately they do not comply with the Wikipedia encyclopedic guidelines and policies. Wikipedia has very strict guidelines for biographies and especially those of living persons.

The addition of unsourced (unreferenced) content is not permitted in biographies of living persons. So every fact needs to be backed up by a verifiable, independent, secondary neutral reference (we also tend to call these sources and/or citations) - a book, journal, magazine or newspaper article. Those references must be added to the article as a citation (like a footnote). Secondly, we do not permit original research, nor is it a place to publish your own original research. Lastly, promotional content, advocacy or CV/resume-like content is discouraged or not permitted. The long unsourced resume-like list of exhibitions, awards and bibliography is not really appropriate for the encyclopedia. These belong on an artist's personal website, or their gallery's website.

I know this is a lot of information to take in, and it might be disappointing for you to hear, but I'm more than happy to work together with you to improve the article within our guidelines and policies. We can communicate on the article's talk page, which is located HERE.

Additionally, here are some very helpful links to learn more about Wikipedia and some of the ways it "works":
 * Citing sources: WP:CS
 * Reliable sources: WP:RS
 * General info on Biographies of living persons: WP:BLP
 * No original research: WP:OR
 * No resume/CV type content; no promotional content: WP:PROMO
 * Policy on what Wikipedia is not: WP:NOT

I hope you enjoy reading these links. It takes a while to learn how things work here; it took me a few years to fully understand, and I'm still learning after 10 years as an editor. Again, I'm happy to work together with you on improving the article, and am very glad to "meet" you here. Best regards, Netherzone (talk) 20:58, 6 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your message and suggestions. I will work on the page, editing it to your specifications.
 * This is the Wikipedia site that I used as my model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Lowe
 * Is this a good model to use? Jennifer McLerran (talk) 20:30, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello Jennifer, thanks so much for getting back with me. May I ask you if you have a connection, personal or professional, to the subject of the article? Netherzone (talk) 21:04, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I am co-curating an exhibition and editing an exhibition catalog of her work for the National Museum of the American Indian and I have written about her work in the past and curated previous exhibitions with her. Jennifer McLerran (talk) 22:41, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
 * That's wonderful, and it's great to "meet" you here. And I look forward to seeing her exhibition in the future! However you do have a conflict of interest as Wikipedia defines COI per their policies and guidelines. You can learn more about how the encyclopedia defines COI here: WP:COI, please read it carefully when you find the time. In the meantime, you will have to stop editing the article directly, and place a disclosure on your user page (which I see you have not yet created). I will help you with your edit requests for Begay's article. There is a system for this type of COI editing we can follow using the article talk page. I have a full time job, and like 99.9% of WP editors am a volunteer, so I may not always respond immediately, but I promise to help. Netherzone (talk) 22:51, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

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