User talk:Marcus Berkmann

WP:COI
Marcus, editing an article about yourself in Wikipedia is a big no-no, the locals tend to get a bit tetchy over it. Years ago they had all sorts of weird punishments that they would mete out, that bloke off Tomorrows World has been walking with a limp ever since. But we're in more enlightened times nowadays and they just tend to ask people to read WP:COI. p.s. Thank you for everything you did to make Your Sinclair brilliant - X201 16:09, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * To clarify. I'm not suggesting your edits were in bad faith or wrong, it's just a case of Not the done thing old bean - X201

Many thanks for the advice. Am a beginner here. If I had any idea how to contact you I would, but can't work it out! MB


 * Clicking on a username will take you to the user's User Page. On the tabs at the top of that page you'll see Discussion' That will take you to a users talk page and that can be edited like a normal page. The normal routine for all discussion pages (both user and Article) is to add new messages at the bottom of the page and to sign your posts by putting four tilde ~ at the end of the text and that will automatically add your name and the date and time to the end of the text. You can have a try on my discussion page if you want. - X201 18:14, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Edits
To be honest, in my opinion the edits you made were OK, they were factual and not made for self aggrandisement purposes. The people you discussed edits with, do you mean that there are Wikipedia articles about them that have incorrect/incomplete/blatantly wrong info in them? If yes then there are several ways to get it tidied up. They can add the info to be changed to the article discussion page making sure that they declare the fact that they are the subject of the article. - This way is usually the most informal and will usually find the most sympathetic editors because the editors that frequent that article usually have it in their watch list and are probably the people who created it in the first place. Although this method can also lead to the least number of people spotting your request and acting upon it. Although it worked for some bloke called Pete Shaw on this article Talk:Your_Sinclair Another way is to ask for help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography again explaining who you are and what you would like changed. - Some will help and some will point you towards the final option. If the article contains something really libellous then they can contact Wikipedia directly Biographies_of_living_persons - This is only for really serious errors in articles and for when requests for change have been ignored or self made changes reverted.

I did find this Arbitration Committee ruling that they can quote to anyone who challenges them over sensible self-edits Biographies_of_living_persons

So from that the upshot is that they can make non-controversial edits themselves but leave a note on the discussion page to say what they've done. And if they can cite WP:CITE an independent source then that will help their case even more. If you want to give me a couple of examples that you're not sure about then I'll give you my opinion of them (for what it's worth). If you spot anything wrong with the YS article or any other magazine or game related article please point it out, you have had a viewpoint of the Video Game and it's surrounds that most who edit here don't. - X201 21:51, 3 July 2007 (UTC) - X201 21:51, 3 July 2007 (UTC)