User talk:Wgrange

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Hello, Wgrange, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was William Marshall Grange, 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. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Proposed deletion of William Marshall Grange


The article William Marshall Grange has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. GregJackP  Boomer!   21:55, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

Status and Advice
Well, I rescued it for you, since I work here primarily on academic biographies. The individual meets our requirements at WP:PROF by holding a named professorship at a major research university; he probably meets our requirements at WP:AUTHOR, though additional book review citations are needed. I added the necessary references. I also rewrote some material copied from the U Nebraska site--although it is possible to give copyright permission if you and not the university own the faculty bio there, it's better and simpler to rewrite.

I added such basic biographic information as I could find; if you are him or represent him, it's odd that you omitted it. The article still needs the place of birth, the high school and undergraduate college attended, and prior faculty positions, with dates. I did not add the theatrical career information, since it would be much better to rely on third party sources for that than on the faculty page. Please do add them, with citations to published reviews. We also need third party citations for all of the awards--if they duplicate any of the fellowship listed, we do not include them here also.

Please do add sourced material of this nature to the article, but do not add any promotional language, except in quoting from published reviews--which do not include ones blogs or book jackets or Amazon., or anything from your own university. If you need any further help, ask me  DGG ( talk ) 00:02, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

May 2022
Hello, Wgrange. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:13, 1 May 2022 (UTC)