User talk:Owen caruana

Thanks for you efforts trying to clean up the referencing error on Julie Zahra; unfortunately the editor before you seems to have copied the artist's biography from their website, so I had to revert back to an earlier version. Josh Parris 01:31, 7 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Josh - yes I have tried to update the bio as there are things in there that are incorrect - I am fully authorised by the artist herself as I am her manager Owen caruana (talk) 01:51, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, that places you in a situation where you have a conflict of interest, I suggest you read the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. I'm happy to keep an eye on Talk:Julie Zahra and address any improvements you suggest. Unless Julie's biography has an open license we can't use work owned by others, and even then it must adhere to the biographies of living persons policy - we need WP:reliable sources for controversial statements in a biography, and self-published/self-promotion information typically doesn't meet that guideline. "Controversial" is in the eye of the beholder. Josh Parris 02:41, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi again - Josh thanks for your support - I understand what you mean and I apologise for my ignorance - If there s anything in the bio that requires evidencing I can surely ask Julie to provide evidence if it helps - Owen caruana (talk) 02:58, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * No worries, but be aware we have policies that may restrict the use of "primary sources of information" - see WP:BLPPRIMARY.
 * I'm sorry that it seems like I'm dropping a whole bunch of rules on you, but like any old organisation, Wikipedia has had bad things happen to it in the past, and like any organisation that has bad things happen to it, it's made rules so that those bad things don't happen again. Just like music promotion is just a matter of getting an act to turn up to a venue on time and tell people about it beforehand, writing an encyclopaedia is just a matter of writing some articles and linking them together. Until you actually, you know, do it. Josh Parris 05:15, 7 November 2013 (UTC)