User talk:PamelaMcNeff

I am Dr. Antonio Damasio's Executive Assistant at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Damasio has requested that some changes be made to his Wikipedia information to insure complete accuracy, and to update the information contained on the page.

The common usage of Dr. Damasio's name, even in Portugal, does not carry accent marks on his first or last name, and he has never published material with accents in his names. He would like the title header to reflect this. Is there any way to undo the redirect and have his information revert to the original "Antonio Damasio" page? That would be his preference.

Also, he does not use his middle name(s) at this point. All references should be to Antonio Damasio with no other name included.

Additionally, just to answer an earlier discussion thread, Dr. Damasio became a citizen of the United States in 1988.

Thank you so much for helping to insure the accuracy of Dr. Damasio's page.

Pamela McNeff PamelaMcNeff (talk) 23:21, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

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More on editing Antonio Damasio
Hi there. What OrangeMike posted above is a standard cut-paste, so I thought I'd focus it a bit. Even if (and its probably true) the changes you made are completely reasonable, there have been so many unpleasant instances of people using Wikipedia to promote themselves that many editors have come feel that subjects (and people associated with them) should abstain from editing their articles pretty much at all, so that other editors don't have to feel constantly on guard against self-promotion. You'll find good discussions of this at WP:COI and WP:AUTOBIO.

I recommend that instead of making changes directly, you leave a message at Talk:Antonio Damasio listing the factual points you think should be added / changed, including links to supporting sources. Then other editors will come by and put the material into the article in their own words. By keeping yourself one step removed from the article itself you'll avoid triggering the sometime hypersensitive reaction editors sometimes have to "interested editing." I'm contacting you here on your Talkpage as an introduction, but continued discussion should probably take place at Talk:Antonio Damasio.

I hope you noticed that, finally, I got around to fixing the "accent problem".

EEng (talk) 01:29, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

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