User talk:Je VH

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Welcome[edit]

Welcome to my discussion page! Go ahead at the bottom of the page, thanks!

Don't forget to sign your posts using 4 tildes, thanks very much! Je VH (talk) 21:33, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Declaration about COI by user:Je VH[edit]

By way of precaution and because I’m interested in both Z'EV’s career and the Wikipedia Project I’m declaring this conflict of interest. I’ve made few edits to Wikipedia until now and most of these edits were made at pages about Z’EV, I‘m what people would call a fan. I was not familiar with the guidelines and probably some of my edits caused the COI tag. Most of my input has been deleted because it was not or badly sourced, WP:INDISCRIMINATE, WP:ELNO. I took a long break and tried to familiarize with the guidelines. So, Although I’m not receiving and don’t expect receiving monetary or other benefits I declare a COI also because there is and has been e-mail traffic between me and the subject. My further intentions to this page are to act in line with the guidelines about COI clean-up to get rid of the COI tag and trying to answer questions by other editors.Je VH (talk) 20:48, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for administrator[edit]

{{helpme}} I want to start the COI cleaning proces of the Z'EV article. Please, see also my comments on the Z’EV talkpage.

I struggle with these questions:

Am I allowed to go into the article and delete statements, inserted before the COI tag was added, that can’t be sourced or statements that aren’t published before somewhere else, described in the guidelines as cleaning up your own mess is allowed and encouraged?
Am I allowed to cite sources for statements, inserted before the COI tag was added, that can be sourced, but still without “citation needed” tag, described in the guidelines as Adding citations, especially when another editor has requested them?
Do I really have a conflict of interest? After finding this statement in the guidelines about close relationships: The definition of "too close" in this context is governed by common sense. An article about a little-known band should preferably not be written by the band's manager or a band member's spouse, and a biography should preferably not be written by the subject's spouse, parent, or offspring. However, an expert on a given subject is welcome to contribute to articles on that subject, even if that editor is deeply committed to the subject, I wonder if I didn’t proceed with to much caution for both the Wikipedia project and the artist Z'EV.

Je VH (talk) 20:24, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The unfortunate part is that so often the editors who have the more extreme types of conflicts of interest—those whose monetary interest are tied to the subject, and especially those who have been paid by the subject to create the article in question, are exactly those who would never disclose their COI. The fact that you have (and in my opinion, yours is a very minor form of COI) is great.

Yes, that would be much appreciated. Although your question here ties in with not just COI but generally with neutral point of view and no original research, the WP:BURDEN section of the verifiability policy is especially relevant here. The upshot is that any statement that is unsourced can be removed and the burden is on those wishing to keep the unsourced content to provide a source (using an inline citation). Please go ahead. I don't wish to overload you with links, but note also the biographies of living persons policy, which makes sourcing for articles on living persons even more stringent.
Yes! Adding sources for unsourced content is almost always a step forward!
Maybe. Fans can take their feelings toward a subject so far beyond just being "interested", that they cannot edit without bias; cannot abide any criticism, could not recognize a neutral tone or balanced content if it hit them in the face. Often it is not necessarily the nature of the relationship in fandom cases, but the actual edits themselves that bear this out.

If you need help with the mechanics of citing sources, please feel free to visit my talk page.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:54, 16 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]