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Article repair, pinging admin for expertise[edit]

I started to clean up this article, per a request for help at the Tea House. Wikipedia:Teahouse#How_to_remove_lead_color_boxes_that_"biography_does_not_include_references"_and_"needs_more_links_to_other_articles" Still need to better integrate the few citations that are improperly formatted. The editor was unaware of the COI guidelines about editing his own article, and was apparently notified. I'm pinging DGG for his experience determining BLP academic and research notability. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 20:06, 19 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To the Wiki people,

Hey, for all the Wiki fears that there may be multiple Ed Landing(s) and nefarious posings of myself, I mistakenly wrote Elanding and ELanding 100 as a name. Please check "Ed Landing" on Google and on researchgate and maybe even directly email me at ed.landing@nysed.gov to check about a well published and traveled old paleo guy. Don't fear.

Back in 2016 someone wrote an inadequate Wiki page for me--it listed my address and two (2!) minor publications done 30 years ago. So, what to do? I added some information in 2017--who else to do it? And how does one find a "non-neutral" colleague? I always identified my edits as written by myself. What is the great conflict of interest in passing neutral information on without any self promotion? Or do I quietly tell someone what to write as an answer to "conflict of interest"? I did not start my Wiki page in 2016, I have only tried to keep it current.

The information added in 2017 stood for a couple of years. Now with requests for more "references" and "on line" sources, I added a few.

Both the "references" and "on line" sources are inadequate now, and there is also a higher hoop of "conflict of interest"

If I could contact Tim Templeton or Myles directly (which seems impossible, I've tried, through Wiki "Talk") I would ask them to add a few items or ask me directly to answer any questions. But how to directly ask a Wiki editor to help?

Anyway, this old guy who refers to such Wiki "non-notable" stuff as defining the Precambrian--Cambrian boundary, U-Pb dates through the Early Paleozoic, the shallow water origin of earliest metazoans, who wasthe 7th NYS Paleontologist since 1844, has included on-line addresses for talks on ACCELERATING GLOBAL WARMING, etc. would maybe like a little help getting through the Wiki forest.

Send me an email,

Ed Landing (Elanding, ELanding100, etc.) ed.landing@nysed.gov — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elanding100 (talk • contribs) 04:12, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Elanding100: Hello Ed. You appear to have gotten a lot of helpful advice at the Teahouse, so I won't repeat it here. However, I will say a couple of things about your user accounts. The general rule is one editor, one account. Operating multiple accounts simultaneously is called sockpuppetry and is against policy.

You previously made edits with the account Elanding, last active in 2017. Perhaps you forgot about it or couldn't remember the password? Regardless, please ensure that you use only one account to edit Wikipedia. From what you said above, I don't believe you had any ill intentions. Just please ensure that you stick to a single account going forward. Also, please ensure to log in before editing, as some of your other edits were done as anonymous editor whilst logged out. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:25, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can ping other editors with the code {{u|Elanding100}} which appears as this: Elanding100. To reach me, you can type {{u|Timtempleton}} in the body of the message, or visit my talk page: User_talk:Timtempleton I'll be alerted if you type anything there. And please sign with the four tildes. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 00:24, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]