User talk:Tarletongillespie

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September 2021
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, Tarletongillespie, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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Appeals: If, after reading the guide to appealing blocks you believe you were blocked in error, then you may appeal this block by adding below this notice. Drmies (talk) 17:41, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Verified, unblocked, courtesy ping to - Cabayi (talk) 17:54, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, can you verify (September 2021)
I appreciate the care Wikipedia takes with this. This is NOT my first edit on Wikipedia, I've been on the site for years, though it has been a long time since I've made an edit.

I was indeed adding information about myself, which your first alert said is allowed. I understand your worries about self-promotion, but the article was also in error and outdated. I took great care in keep the additions factual. So if you would review my recent edits and, if they're acceptable, reinstate them, I'd appreciate it.

Tarletongillespie (talk) 18:48, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Tarletongillespie, I'm sorry I had to block you, and I'm glad you understand why. About the article, that is another matter though: material needs to be verified by secondary sources, and it needs to have encyclopedic value. So, for instance, those awards--I know how much they matter to us in our lives and our careers (I'm working on my promotion documents right now), but that doesn't make them encyclopedically valuable. We're writing biographies here, not resumes, and biographies here need secondary sourcing. For academics, unfortunately that's a lot harder to do than for YouTubers or stand up comedians, and the way forward has two branches: a. GNG, with material from newspapers and magazines and all that, which for a Microsoft person may be a happening things; b. secondary sources on the scholarship. So there's reviews of the book: without them this would have been deleted a long time ago. Those are the kinds of sources that will someone help pass WP:NPROF. Once we're dead, it's a different thing: if they write up our obituaries in the trade journals or the journals we edited, we're notable for sure--in the meantime, it will have to come, most likely, from our academic work. Drmies (talk) 00:56, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Understood. If you check the current version, there are more awards that whoever wrote it first had grabbed from my bio; I was actually removing most of them. They can all go, I really was just trying to fix what's there. Would it be best if I just asked someone else to do it? This seems a roundabout solution, but I am not against it. Or I can limit it to things I can source. Tarletongillespie (talk) 02:41, 17 September 2021 (UTC)