User talk:Jsherman1

Martin Garbus article
I must discourage you, and others of Mr. Garbus's coworkers and employees, from adding promotional material to the article. Wikipedia has evolved a number of policies, guidelines, and practices, in a more-or-less consensus manner, to help the project achieve its goals. One such guideline is the strong discouragement of auto-biographical editing on Wikipedia; this is describe in Autobiography. This extends to ghostwriters, people editing at the direction of the article's subject, such as coworkers and employees.

As we note on the edit page: "Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Promotional articles about yourself, your friends, your company or products, or articles created as part of a marketing or promotional campaign, will be deleted in accordance with our deletion policies. For more information, see Wikipedia:Spam." Since Mr. Garbus is sufficiently notable to deserve a Wikipedia article, we would not delete it, but the article is intended to fulfill Wikipedia's goals, not Mr. Garbus's.

Wikipedia policy and practice supports and endorses linking to a biographical subject's personal web page and/or official biography; if the links currently in the article are not appropriate, please feel free to add or substitute a link or two. Links, like content, or subject to review by all the other editors of Wikipedia to see if it conforms to policy WP:EL. You might also wish to adjust the captions on the existing links slightly, perhaps noting something "official biography at...".

Finally, although the Autobiography article says this, I want to make it emphatically clear that the discouragement of auto-biographical editing does not extend to elimination of gross errors or defamatory material. Because Wikipedia allows anybody to edit articles, we sometimes get mischievous or malicious editors who add inappropriate material, and auto-biographical edits are permitted and encouraged to correct such abuses. Also, almost any other experienced Wikipedia editor will be happy to make such corrections, if asked. Studerby 17:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Additionally, if Mr. Garbus would care to have a picture of himself on the article, feel free to upload one. I can assist you with the technical details of that if you wish. It would need to be an image to which he owns the copyright and is willing to grant everybody in the world rights to copy and redistribute... Studerby 17:29, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * And finally, feel free to suggest material for inclusion in the article on the "talk" page, which is reachable from the "Discussion" tab at the top of the main article. Studerby 17:31, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Turns out that there's a guideline article that more succinctly describes relevant practice, the conflict-of-interest article at WP:COI. Studerby 18:24, 9 May 2007 (UTC)