User talk:MaryFilstar

Mary Filsell (talk) 07:25, 11 June 2021 (UTC) Thanks for the welcome! JarrahTree

Hope this is the right area to reply & thanks for the tips JarrahTree I'm totally willing for help& guidance !!! looks like I went in like too much of a cowboy/girl/etc

Statement of afiliation--Mary Filsell (talk) 07:25, 11 June 2021 (UTC): I work for a University as a research Librarian. I edited Peter Sutton's biographical page, Peter is a previous colleague from the South Australian Museum. Peter asked me to edit the page as a favour, as he noted that the content was not accurate - he is the living biographical subject, I don't think he or I were aware that this would be a conflict of interest, as I was not paid to make changes & the changes are corrections from Peter, the biographical subject themselves & mainly updates since the wiki article is missing recent events & numerous publications that I could help expand upon with referenced & up to date material. However, I can see now that I did this poorly while trying to learn how to edit on the fly. I've slowed down. promise. & will do my best to follow the rules respectfully. sorry.

I'm going to try again!
 * You don't really seem to be asking for help, so I've closed your help request. I will say that since you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid direct edits to the article, but you may make formal edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page(Talk:Peter Sutton (anthropologist) ‎), detailing changes you feel are needed.  Preferably, these changes should be sourced to independent reliable sources. 331dot (talk) 11:22, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

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