User talk:Psychistorian

Any affiliation with Thomas Teo?
Hi, are you in any way affiliated with Thomas Teo? ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:58, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination of Thomas Teo for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Thomas Teo is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Hi
Thanks for your message. I would like to explain that I am editing the entry of Thomas Teo because I am interested in his academic research. All information I included in the entry came from third-party sources, primarily including:

→http://www.yorku.ca/tteo/index/Home.html

http://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=9251

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Teo

https://yorku.academia.edu/ThomasTeo

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=vNKpI-EAAAAJ&hl=en

I have restrained from making any subjective assessment other than replicating information from these third-party sources.

Thanks!


 * Hi, thank you for taking the time to answer! I'm sorry if this is annoying, but I'm trying to make sure that there is actually no conflict of interest here: You have already indirectly answered the question, but to avoid any confusion or doubt, it might be really helpful if you could clarify what that means. Basically, these are the main points that having an explicit answer would be useful to:


 * Are you receiving, or expecting to receive, any compensation for your edits to Wikipedia? The following page might be helpful here: FAQ on paid contributions


 * Are you really not affiliated with Thomas Teo in any way? You are not required to answer this question by the terms of use, but you should do so to clarify if there is any possible conflict of interest in regards to the "Thomas Teo" article.


 * Again, thank you very much for taking the time - for both writing the article and explaining the motivation behind it. To me, it seemed to be an autobiography first, which isn't forbidden by itself, but often causes a lot of problems. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, and we are investing a lot of effort keep such articles accurate and neutral. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:44, 20 April 2018 (UTC)