User talk:SHKeane

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A friendly note:
Your username allows an presumption that you might be Susan Hale Keane, and as you wish to edit the article on Walter Keane, I do wish to caution you of Wikipedia's concerns toward conflict of interest. I do understand that you may be in a unique position to add information to the article, but per WP:COI you need be quite careful that anything of the details you do add must themselves be verifable and cited to reliable sources. For example, in THIS edit, where you added additional unsourced information, you unfortunately also removed existing citations to what had previously been there, and unlinked the various wikilinks. Also, in your including unsourced observations made by the parents, even with the best of intentions and knowing personally that the information is true, runs contrary to Wikipedia policy. Anything included must be found in sources elsewhere, and not simply reflect just personal knowledge. Because of your inclusion of unsourced information, another editor came along and, in noticing an entire section lacked sources, fixed what he could and then tagged the section for the new issues. If the information is not sourced within a reasonable amount of time, your entire set of additions may well be removed when the article is likley reverted to the verison which existed immediately BEFORE you began editing the article. Please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page if you have questions or wish advice. Best regards,  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 23:16, 1 June 2012 (UTC)