User talk:Janinedigi

Please can you help update my Wiki page, Janine di Giovanni? Thank you so much!

I hope you are well and you can help. I have two very large changes to make to my Wiki site - or to add.

I have been named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow (Non Fiction) announced today on Page A5 of the New York Times (I can also send the letter that told me I have received one) https://www.gf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/New-York-Times-Ad-2019.pdf

and I am currently also a Senior Fellow at Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Affairs http://jackson.yale.edu/person/janine-di-giovanni/

and a 2018 Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

Please can you add these? My page is locked so I can not do it

Thank you so much Janine di Giovanni

2. My book, "The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria" has recently been shortlisted for the Helen Bernstein Award, the New York Public Library. Results announced May 22 in NYC. REF: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/05/08/podcast-163-janine-di-giovanni-bernstein-award-finalist

i am also a non resident International Security Fellow at the New America foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy

REF: https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/janine-di-giovanni/

REF: http://www.gcsp.ch/News-Knowledge/Experts/Fellows/Di-Giovanni-Ms-Janine-Di-Giovanni I am a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where I studied International Law and Relations and wrote a thesis on Track 2 Diplomacy in Syria... ReF: https://shorensteincenter.org/janine-di-giovanni/

Finally, a heartfelt request: I have asked several times to have the "Controversy shortened... The Controversy, in fact, was only a controversy within a small community in France...and it has caused me numerous heartaches, most of all because I did not defend myself as I was working in South Sudan at the time...with refugees. I chose to ignore it rather than to write that it was tongue in cheek piece and meant to be an Op Ed.. However, I was unfairly trolled by a few angry French residents who want to keep the debate alive -

It has in some ways taken highlight over my other work - I was even asked about it at a job interview! Thank you so much for your time

Thank you for your help! Janine

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (April 10)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Boothsift was: This topic is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: This is not an article, this is a request for an action.

BoothSift 17:56, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Janinedigi! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! BoothSift 17:56, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

April 2019

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This includes the Teahouse. David Biddulph (talk) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Janine di Giovanni, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 19:47, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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Hi Janinedigi. After seeing your post at WP:THQ#Can someone help me please? I need an update to my site..., I decided to add the above template to your user talk page. I did this not because you have gone and done something wrong so to speak, but only because it contains (blue) links to various Wikipedia page where I think you'll find some helpful information. Some of the more relevant pages (or sections of pages) to your particular situation are Wikipedia:Ownership of content, Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Relationship between the subject, the article, and Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Law of unintended consequences and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Making uncontroversial edits. So, if you can take a bit of time to look over those particular pages/sections in particluar, then I think you get a better understanding of what Wikipedia and Wikipedia articles are.

One big misconception that many make is that Wikipedia articles are written for people (i.e. for their benefit or perhaps even their detriment) and that a Wikipedia article are sort of like personal bios or social media accounts, etc.. A Wikipedia article is actually written about someone or something, not for someone or something, in an encyclopedic and neutral tone and all of the article content is supposed to only reflect what is written about the subject in reliable sources (preferably secondary and independent) which can be verified through citations to said reliable sources; in other words, Wikipedia is not really concerned (except for certain types of content) what the subject is saying about itself, but rather what reliable sources are saying about it.

If after you finish reading those pages you have any questions, feel free to ask for help either here on your user talk page using Template:Help me, at the Wikipedia Teahouse or at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard and someone should come along and try to help you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:08, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Your username

Hi again Janinedigi. As you've probably noticed by now, every one who registers for a Wikipedia account gets to pick a username for the account. Most of the time people choose a username which reflects some interest they have, something they like, or just something they may personally find clever. Many people even choose to use their real name or something quite close. As long as a username complies with Wikipedia:Username policy, then it can be used.

Since you've identified yourself as Janine di Giovanni in a couple of posts you've added to some Wikipedia pages, you might want to consider to have your identity verified by by send an email to Wikimedia OTRS. You're not required to do this and you can use your real name as your account name per Wikipedia:Username policy# Real names as I mentioned above, but sometimes an account may be soft blocked to prevent against any dangerous impersonation as a precaution when the name is the same (or quite similar) to someone who has a Wikipedia article written about them. Having an OTRS volunteer verify your identity will make it clear to everyone and anyone who cares that you are really the Janine di Giovanni, and not some other Janine di Giovanni or someone pretending to be you. Once your email has been verified, an OTRS voluteer will add Template:Verified account to let others know. Again, you don't have to do any of this, but it may make it easier for you to ask for help with the article if you plan on being active on Wikipedia from hereon. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:22, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Janinedigi! You created a thread called Can someone help me please? I need an update to my site... at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Janinedigi/sandbox

Hello, Janinedigi. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, User:Janinedigi/sandbox.

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:29, 25 October 2019 (UTC)