User talk:WallaceaNature

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Willie Smits, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Thank you!
Many thanks for the informative input and support :. This all makes sense. Just to clarify; I hope you can help alleviate my concern as to how a living person can avoid having inaccurate information published about them on a wikipedia page, but maintaining neutrality and avoiding COI accusations. Thanks for the support. I will look into the draft process you mentioned. Many thanks. (WallaceaNature (talk) 03:23, 29 May 2020 (UTC))
 * I am not engaged in any paid wiki editing, nor do I have any plans to.
 * I started a couple of years ago with the intention of updating missing and new information about endemic species of wildlife to Wallacea, but in the end did not manage to put serious time into this, despite having researched numerous scientific articles to provide relevant citations and having a decade of personal experience working with wildlife in this region.
 * When I started editing on wikipedia, I saw many handles that are not real names, and hence took the choice to use the same handle I use on YT/FB/IG/Tw etc and as a self-employed nature conservation consultant in Indonesia. No-one is using this login other than myself, it is personal, not on behalf of any organisation.  I would prefer not to change it, but if there is no way around it, I will in due course.
 * More recently I have started to update the page Willie Smits, I know the person this biography refers to, already more than 10 years, but do not work for him since I left one of his organisations in 2017. He recently asked a favour as he did not know how to remove nonfactual, misleading or out of date information from his wiki page and replace them with key facts.  Can you suggest how a living person can ensure that the information published about them on wikipedia is accurate?  Does he need to start a legal process or get lawyers involved perhaps? Advice is welcome.
 * I was planning to make a major edit when I have time, because there are many mistakes in the text, written by someone who meant well, but did not posses the facts, and there are many references to more recent work that can be added with citations. For now, I just added the name of his current wife, deleted reference to his brother which is several years out of date and irrelevant.  Then also added a more recent photo.  However, it seems that trying to help a friend is not possible here, until I have navigated the minefield of how wikipedia works, obviously with good intent.
 * With the COI notice, just from the minor edits to quickfix and delete falsehoods that had no citations, add one single fact and a recent photo, it makes it look like the entire article is derived from an untrustworthy conflict of interest.  Whereas it is merely just fact-checking from a reliable/knowledgable source. Hence my concern.
 * Hello, WallaceaNature! Hope you're well. I have included more info below, but the gist is: no lawyers, please; just proceed to Talk:Willie Smits, add a new section with request edit, text in the form of please change X to Y, a link to the source, and . Hope that helped, Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you!
Many thanks for the informative input and support :. This all makes more sense now. (WallaceaNature (talk) 04:01, 29 May 2020 (UTC))