Talk:Dennis Gruending

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Help in updating my Wikipedia profile[edit]

Hi: Wikipedia has a brief entry on me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gruending but it is out of date and incomplete. A journalist friend of mine made some updating changes in the past but then someone had the old version reestablished. What is the best way for me to seek just a few changes that will update the entry and make it accurate.

1) The site says I have published five books but I have now published eight. For documentation and sourcing purposes, I am registered as an Amazon Author and all of the title are listed there: https://www.amazon.com/Dennis-Gruending/e/B001K7S0W2%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

2) My university educational credentials are missing. I have both a BA in Arts and a Masters degree in Journalism. Again, the sources for that exist with the institutions in question: a) https://alumni.usask.ca/connect/classnotes.php; b) https://carleton.ca/sjc/profile/dennis-gruending/

3). The House of Commons link that you use as a reference for me takes the reader to a 19th century politician named The Hon. Gordon Minto Churchill, ie: https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=1772

4) There is no accompanying photo with the entry. I do have an up-to-date photo which I paid a professional photographer to take and am feree to use, with or without attribution.

My basic question is this: how to incorporate these changes. do you accept changes from the subject of an entry? Or do I have to provide the information to someone else who adds the new material?

Thanks, dennis gruending 70.48.113.14 (talk) 00:16, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome, Dennis. Since you are the subject of the Dennis Gruending article, you are strongly encouraged to avoid editing it directly yourself. Instead, Please place these suggestions on the article's talk page, together with the magical incantation {{request edit}}, and an editor without a WP:COI will come along and update the article as appropriate. However, such an editor will need to cite reliable sources (WP:RS), so it thanks for providing them. For the photo: We rigidly adhere to copyright law. The professional photographer holds the copyright, and "permission to use" is insufficient. We need for the copyright owner to grant a CC-BY-SA license. If the photographer transferred the copyright to you, then you can do this yourself. After you get an image file of a picture for which you own the copyright onto your computer, then come back here and ask for further help. -Arch dude (talk) 05:16, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Response[edit]

. The Amazon page is pretty fluid and might change to add paperback vs. hardbacks, so I'm personally not comfortable using it. But the Carlton profile includes the number, so I changed it.
. Updated and also added what I would consider a slightly more stable reference at the Saskatchewan Archival Information Network
. Fixed, this is 1772, your entry is at 1722.
. I agree with the response Arch dude. I don't understand Canadian Copyright law in regard to the photo at the Canadian Parliment website, but I don't *think* it could be used on Wikipedia.Naraht (talk) 16:15, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]