User talk:Oxfordboy42

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Hello, Oxfordboy42, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Will Wyatt, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Gaelan 💬✏️ 13:08, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Re: your email
Hi, and thanks for the email. My reply to you seems to have bounced, so I hope you won't mind my replying here.

Apologies for my initial response, which was probably a little overzealous. Unfortunately, we get a lot of people changing articles to highlight one viewpoint over the rest, and it’s often difficult to tell at a glance whether they know what they’re talking about, or are more part of, as you put it, the “some will always need to doubt” crowd.

Your best bet is probably to raise this issue on the talk page for the article, with reference to reliable sources that Otto Feige has been generally accepted as Traven’s identity. If it’s helpful, you could also create a “userspace draft”—a personal copy of the article distinct from the currently published one (but, as with most everything on Wikipedia, is publicly viewable for anyone who goes looking) to iterate on. Your version of the article is saved in the revision history here, if you’d like to use any of the wording.

The bit about reliable sources is crucial: one of Wikipedia’s core principles is that, as a tertiary source, we never evaluate the evidence ourselves in cases like this: we simply reflect what has previously been published by reliable sources. This can be frustrating for researchers like yourself, who may have to wait for the general consensus to “catch up” to your research before it can be presented as definitive truth on Wikipedia. This is unfortunate, but a necessary compromise to make an encyclopedia of Wikipedia’s scope—maintained by volunteers who are necessarily not subject matter experts in most areas—possible.

I hope this has been helpful; if you have further questions, feel free to ask me; the Teahouse is also a great place to find help.

Yours,

Gaelan 💬✏️ 02:03, 1 February 2022 (UTC)