User talk:Neil Astley

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Jack Gilbert
Hi Neil, Re Jack Gilbert's death date, the Academy of American Poets have also been liaising with the family and have stated that he died on the Sunday and the family made the announcement on the Tuesday. I have been emailing with the Academy to confirm the dates as there have been conflicting dates given in the press. I am in contact with Knopf publishers in the States also in confirming and trying to find a definitive source to add to the article. Any further reference you can add would be most helpful as WP works by citations. Please see the article talk page for more discussion on the death date. Any help appreciated. Thanks Span (talk) 16:22, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi - my information came from Henry Lyman, Jack Gilbert's secretary and literary executor. He assured me that Jack had died on Tuesday 13th at 4.30am in the morning. I therefore used that date in today's obituary in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/20/jack-gilbert

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Hello, Neil Astley. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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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Thank you Canterbury Tail: I'm not sure if this is the right way to respond to your comment but I would appreciate clarification on one point. My main input on Wikipedia has been bibliographical: adding missing information on poetry books, missing titles, missing ISBNs, wrong dates, etc. I do this for authors I publish and for many authors I don't publish. My work involves promoting interest in all kinds of poetry and it has always seemed important to me that correct information is available to everyone, which is what appeals to me in particular about Wikipedia. When I see a wrong or out of date entry, I feel I have a responsibility to edit or correct it, in everyone's interest. If I don't do this that information is likely to stand uncorrected and even be used by people as if it were correct, so that the same mistakes get replicated elsewhere, because of how Wikipedia is regarded by so many people as the authoritative resource. Is this conflict of interest?Neil Astley (talk) 21:25, 20 February 2020 (UTC)