User talk:Reedabplanalpcowan

March 2014
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Conflict of interest
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 * Since you are the man himself, I just wanted you to read over our COI policy. This doesn't mean you can't edit, just that you need to be very, very careful about editing to avoid any concerns of self-promotion or other typical COI concerns. A good way to potentially avoid COI concerns is to post on the article's talk page to detail any changes that need to be made to the article and/or to raise concerns at pertinent WikiProjects such as WP:JOURNALISM and the like. I'll ask for someone to come and act as an intermediary and as a mentor from the journalism WikiProject. On a side note, I did notice that you removed several categories from the bottom of the page, mostly ones that dealt with the LGBT categories. While I can understand wanting to remove the labeling of your sexuality in the lead of the article and I agree that it should have been removed, the categories are sort of a different matter. Those enable users to find pertinent subject topics a little more easily. For example, if someone wanted to do research or just read up on journalists that happen to fall within the perspective of LBGT terms, that category can help them find more users than if they were to try using just search terms. The same thing goes for categories such as American journalists and the like. I've added just a few LGBT categories to the page, but did not add all of the ones that were on there previously. One's sexuality should not be the primary and initial focus of an article, but we do put LBGT categories on people who are open about their sexuality. Of course I can see the obvious flaw with the categories since we don't have a "Heterosexual journalists" and so on category, but that's sort of something you'd have to broach in one of the main forums on Wikipedia. I'll try to see which area would be the best one to voice concerns on. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   11:24, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I think that WikiProject LGBT studies/Noticeboard would probably be the best place to start if you are concerned with any LGBT related category tags on your page. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   11:26, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Name change
I was writing to say that changing the name of the article is possible, but we would need to see where you are referred to this in the news and in professional circles. In other words, if you still use Reed Cowan professionally and this is predominantly or solely what you go by, that is what the main name on the article will be due to WP:COMMONNAME. We can include the legal name in the lead but we will list the common name first. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:20, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Also, I would recommend using this account to suggest any changes. Due to the amount of personal attacks in the comment field on the article by IPs, I'm requesting page protection and you won't be able to edit with an IP if this request is accepted. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 

July 2017
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Sockpuppet investigation
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