User talk:Mcotera

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Mcotera. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Maria Cotera, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Your username suggests you may be the subject of the article in question. Skeletor3000 (talk) 02:53, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
This Wikipedia page was created by undergraduate students for a class. It contains personal information about my family that I feel very uncomfortable with. It also contains multiple inaccuracies and truly terrible writing. I am a professional academic and this page could potentially harm my career. It also includes extraneous historical information that has been added for the purposes of the class assignment but has nothing to with me or my career. I would like the entire contents of the article removed and replaced with a more standard professional biography like this:

Maria Cotera holds a PhD from Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought, and an MA in English from the University of Texas. She is currently an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s Studies and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where she is the Director of Latina/o Studies Program. Cotera's first book, Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita González, and the Poetics of Culture, (University of Texas Press, 2008) received the Gloria Anzaldúa book prize for 2009 from the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA). Her edited volume (with Dionne Espinoza and Maylei Blackwell), Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Feminism and Activism in the Movement Era (University of Texas Press, 2018) has been adopted in courses across the country. Professor Cotera is currently working on the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Project, an online interactive archive of oral histories and material culture documenting Chicana Feminist praxis from 1965-1985. She is the lead curator for two public history exhibits: Las Rebeldes: Stories of Strength and Struggle in southeast Michigan (2013) and Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos (2017). Cotera has served on the National Council for the American Studies Association (2007-2010), the governing board of the Latina/o Studies Association (2014-2015), the program committee for the National Women’s Studies Association (2017-2018), and the Arte Público Recovery Project Governing Board (2018-present). Mcotera (talk) 03:15, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
 * As suggested by another editor, please discuss the changes on the talk page of the article. That would be of help. Accesscrawl (talk) 03:19, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Maria Cotera article
Hi, I just wanted to add an update to the above notice and let you know that I'm going to go ahead and remove uncited content from the article, per WP:BLP. Please discuss any further concerns on the article's talk page. Skeletor3000 (talk) 03:17, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I finally figured out that I was posting my comments to the wrong page! I have posted my comments to the talk page for the article. Thanks.