User talk:Savannahw1

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February 2020
Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:42, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * In addition, I would like to know what relationship you have, if any, to the accounts and . All three of you are making similar edits, with an apparent conflict of interest with Senator Hassan. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:50, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

From Savannahw1 (talk) in response to above notes from Missvain and Drmies -- Hello, my apologies if this is not the correct way to communicate about this but I thought I'd respond to your notes here -- I'm new to Wikipedia! I work in New Hampshire politics and noticed that our Senator Maggie Hassan's birthday was incorrect on her Wikipedia page. Yesterday was her birthday (02/27) and we were celebrating it here in New Hampshire, so I went in to make the change to have the correct birthday on her page. That is the only change I made or would like to make, and I did not realize I was not making the edit correctly. Apologies!

The senator's bio on her official website includes her birthday (last paragraph, and I've also pasted it below):


 * https://www.hassan.senate.gov/about


 * Maggie Hassan was born on February 27, 1958. She earned her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. from the Northeastern School of Law. She and her husband, Tom, who serves as the President of School Year Abroad, live in Newfields and are the proud parents of two children, Ben (31) and Meg (27).

Are you able to update her wikipedia page to have her correct birthday, or may I go in and do it now that I've shared a source? This is her wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Hassan. Please let me know if I can provide anything further and thanks very much for your time! Savannahw1 (talk) 17:24, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It doesn't say "Maggie Hassan was born on February 27, 1958" on that page at all. Drmies (talk) 17:34, 28 February 2020 (UTC)


 * So strange. I can see it on the page when I look at it. Would you mind maybe refreshing https://www.hassan.senate.gov/about again? Not sure what's going on! Drmies Thanks so much. Savannahw1 (talk) 19:22, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I see it now; as far as I'm concerned it's good enough to cite. Did you just update it? (You didn't answer my question about the other two accounts...) Drmies (talk) 19:26, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok great! No, her staff updated it early this morning -- maybe there was some sort of lag? Not sure. And I don't know who those two accounts are, but I assume they are people who also work in New Hampshire politics if they are also paying attention to something like her birthday being wrong haha :) As a next step, will you be updating her wikipedia page with the correct birthday? I think the page is locked for me. Thank you! Savannahw1 (talk) 19:40, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, locked it, citing COI concerns, and I can't blame her, given this business about a website update and all that. It sounds an awful lot like you are not telling us the whole truth. If you have a COI, lying about it is the worst thing you can do, especially over something as silly as a birth date. What you need to do is declare any COI and explain how you will edit within our guidelines. Please read Conflict of interest. Drmies (talk) 22:45, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Someone clearly updated it, haha, as it says it on the webpage she linked too, now: "Maggie Hassan was born on February 27, 1958. She earned her B.A. from Brown University and her J.D. from the Northeastern School of Law. She and her husband, Tom, who serves as the President of School Year Abroad, live in Newfields and are the proud parents of two children, Ben (31) and Meg (27)." I just sighed really loudly. It is Friday, after all. Missvain (talk) 23:11, 28 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Missvain and Drmies! I already said I work in New Hampshire politics. I said that in my first comment to you -- I'm not hiding that or lying about it. It doesn't even make sense to hide it as that's the whole reason I know when the Senator's birthday is, which is why I shared that with you in my first comment here. Re: the COI concern, I don't work for her and don't know her personally haha. And I don't want to — and have not attempted to — make any edits beyond this to the senator's page or any other wikipedia page. I was just trying to update her birthday hahaha.


 * To recap: On the Senator's birthday last Thursday, I noticed it was listed incorrectly on Wikipedia. I edited her birthday to the correct date. You removed it. I updated it again because I didn't understand why my change was reversed. You removed it again writing "uncited birth date." Seeing that given reason, I emailed her staff to let them know her birth date needs to exist on an official web page so it can be cited in order for my wikipedia edit to be accepted. They added her birth date to her Senate page. When that was done, I responded to you that her birthday is on her Senate page. That's the whole thing. Hope that clears things up. Thanks. Savannahw1 (talk) 03:55, 2 March 2020 (UTC)