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Replying to "Confusion about edits"
editHello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You recently posted this question to another user which came to my attention. I'm a host at the Teahouse where we aim to guide and assist new users, especially if they appear not to understand how we work, of find our policies or the syntax we use on article pages confusing. I thought you might appreciate a spot of 1-2-1 help, so I'll break things down into bullet points for you to consider:
- First of all, with regards to Glenn Fitzgerald you appear to have a clear Conflict of Interest in that you stated that you're "working on the article with his permission". If you propose to do more than add an image of him, you must declare your connection on your talk page. (Just follow the link to WP:COI I've just given you to find out what you should do.) And if you're being paid, you are obligated to make a declaration before you edit further. See WP:PAID for how to do that.
- Nobody needs the subjects permission to edit a Wikipedia page about them, as they have no say in what does and does not go in.
- We don't care what the subject wants to say about themselves, as we only add content that an be reliably sourced from published references (news media, books, journals, but not blogs, social media, personal websites etc)
- We do care that biographies of living people (known as BLPs) contain nothing promotional that either the person has said about themselves, or (far worse) what other people think about them if those statements can't be shown to be reliably sourced and appropriate. For that reason alone, User:MB added a template to the page to encourage proper inline citations and links to support the content of the article. Just having a couple of External links at the bottom of the page isn't ideal. This wasn't aimed at something you've done, but future editing should conform to our policy on biographies whose shortcut is: WP:BLP, and that page definitely needs inline references linking proper sources for verification.
- New editors often get confused by the syntax we use, especially if they dive straight in and aren't aware of the pages and pages of help and guidance we have available here to assist them. Put simply, you only use the full code (i.e. [[File:Glenn Fitzgerald.jpg|thumb|Glenn Fitzgerald]]if you're inserting a Wikimedia Commons image anywhere other than within an Infobox. Within an infobox we drop the brackets, the File:, the thumb command, and simply use Glenn Fitzgerald.jpg on its own. Please see Help:Infobox picture.
- To help you understand more effectively how we operate, please visit Wikipedia:Getting started and perhaps try out our interactive tour called The Wikipedia Adventure. I'll shortly leave a welcome massage for you above this post, full of useful links. You might get quicker replies to any future concerns if you post at the Teahouse, as there are volunteers there 24/7. But you are perfectly OK to contact an editor to seek better understanding of why they may have made certain edits.
- Finally, whenever you post to another person's talk page (or to a help forum) you do need to remember to sign your posts by typing four keyboard tilde characters (like this: ~~~~ which automatically adds your username and timestamp to your post. Without it, it's very hard to know who said what, and in what order. It's also part of our notification system, whereby if you name an editor and sign a sentence at the same time before publishing your edit, you'll create an automatic notification that alerts the other editor that you've mentioned them.
I hope this is of assistance. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 09:49, 1 April 2019 (UTC)