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CS1 error on Valencia Koomson
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 * Russ,
 * I am not sure what the issue is here. I have no association with Valencia Joyner. If you paid close attention the university I am associated with is North Carolina Central University not Tufts. I have never met, spoke with, or received payment from Valencia Koomson. Additionally, I used reliable third party sources for my citations including direct interviews with Valencia. Please refrain from making changes to my posts in the future as I have no affiliation with Dr. Koomson. Thank you. Mpsheriff (talk) 14:49, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * , I reverted your last batch of edits because they are not in keeping with our standard practice for academic biographies. Teaching information is highly subject to change, and is WP:MILL -- all professors teach classes, and it is usually not very closely related to their reasons for notability.  The awards that should go into an article are career pinnacle ones, not the early career ones that you added.  Interviews are not great as sources: see WP:INTERVIEW.  I'd be happy to answer some of your questions about editing academic bios. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 17:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * That doesn't make sense. There were awards listed that were received earlier than one I added. What criteria is there to determine if an award is important enough or not? Mpsheriff (talk) 17:56, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * , you're right that the awards you added weren't worse than what was there. I was focused on the changes.  I've trimmed down the awards section to the MLK visiting prof; I am doubtful as to whether that last one is selective enough to really belong in the article, but it's not obvious.  The addition you made to her research looks to be primary-sourced; it is difficult to find non-primary sources for the research of mid-career scholars.  Do you need to find an article to improve for your class?  Have you considered looking through some stub categories, like Category:American law biography stubs? Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:41, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Russ,
 * The quote from Valencia Koomson is relevant, without influence from those sources she may have never traveled down the research path she did. The only thing I changed from the first post and the second was the word transformative. Does that really change the tone of the statement? I don't think so. Also, there is nothing wrong with using an interview as a source in Wikipedia. According to the article you sent me about using interviews in Wikipedia. Primary sources are allowed if they are uncontroversial and support claims about themselves. Which this quote absolutely is. Mpsheriff (talk) 15:24, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * , I'll copy this over to the article talk page, and answer there. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 15:30, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Let me add offline some friendly advice, repeating what I said before a little more directly. It looks like you might be trying to get a class project out of the Koomson article.  That article is actually in relatively good shape for a biography of a mostly low-profile early-mid career academic.  While improvements are surely welcome, getting enough mileage out of just that article for a class project (while keeping to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines) looks to me to be relatively difficult.  I'm happy to keep talking to you about the article, but there are many other articles that are in worse shape. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 19:37, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

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