User talk:MaxBoot

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Max Boot article
Hi,

Please use the talk page to make suggestions, otherwise there is a conflict of interest. Thank you, Malerooster (talk) 18:40, 27 January 2023 (UTC)


 * This is nuts. You mean I have a conflict of interest in setting the facts straight on a page about me? But other people who don't know me and don't know the first thing about me (and in fact may hate me sight unseen) are free to write any nonsense they like?? I corrected the initial reference to me as "Max Alexanderovich Boot," because NO ONE has ever called me by that patronymic and I have NEVER used it. I am American. I do not speak Russian and have not lived in Russia in nearly 50 years (I left at age 6). But now I see my correction has been erased. So how the hell am I supposed to have it accurate? I also added that my book "The Road Not Taken" was a Pulitzer Finalist and best-seller. These are also objective facts that you or someone else has chosen to delete while including many assertions that are either outright false, outdated or questionable. What are you standards of accuracy???? How do I get this thing straightened out???? MaxBoot (talk) 18:53, 27 January 2023 (UTC)


 * As the subject of an article has no inherent right of ownership or editorial control over an article about them, the proper way to deal with this is outlined in the autobiography guidelines in section entitled "Problems in an article about you". Article content must reflect the published writings of reliable and independent sources. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * This is what the Wiki guidelines say: "You may wish to make suggestions on the article's talk page or, if the problem is clear-cut and uncontroversial, you may wish to edit the page yourself." That is precisely what I did! And now I'm told I wasn't allowed to do that. This is the most infuriating site. MaxBoot (talk) 19:17, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Please read the entire guideline. You'll see that, while you can definitely edit the article about you, we do not encourage you to do so. In fact, we specifically state that you "should generally let others do the writing" on any article about you. This is good for you in multiple ways.
 * First, there are sensationalist "journalists" that try to find anything controversial about any celebrity or otherwise well-known person. Getting into an editing dispute on Wikipedia has created such negative coverage in the past. We'd like to avoid that, and I imagine you'd prefer such negative pieces to be avoided as well.
 * Second, editors here generally do try to keep articles about any topic on Wikipedia written in a neutral way, especially anything which could be seen as negative. This is especially true regarding biographies of living people such as yourself. When the subject of an article starts editing articles about themselves and not working well with other editors of the article, some editors here will become suspicious of anything the article subject is trying to change. This can even lead to potential blocking of your account for disruptive editing. We want to avoid that if at all possible.
 * That's why we encourage you to post concerns and suggestions on the talk page of the article about you rather than making the edits yourself. If you post those concerns and suggestions, along with links or citations to supporting documentation (articles, papers, news reports, books, etc.) from reliable, third-party sources, editors will be much more willing to work with you to clean up any potential issues with the article.
 * Finally, please keep in mind that the article about you on Wikipedia does not belong to you. You do not own it, and you do not control what goes into it. That said, we are more than willing to work with you as long as you abide by the policies and guidelines that govern Wikipedia. Please try to work within the system rather than against it. The learning curve to edit on Wikipedia is very steep, and it can definitely be frustrating when you're first trying to figure things out. If you take the time to learn, however, you'll find that all of those policies and guidelines are in place for multiple reasons, and we've found they help make the site run much more smoothly than if it was left to become the Wild West. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 19:14, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
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Thank you. ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 20:13, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, VRT has received verification of the user's identity in 2023012710012249. Would you be willing to unblock? Thanks, Spicy (talk) 17:59, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I've looked at the ticket and unblocked the user based on that information. I've added the tag to their userpage, too. Thanks! ··· 日本穣 ·  投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 18:54, 1 February 2023 (UTC)