User talk:Maderaj

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Please help me with... I'm trying to help Emily Wickersham change the wiki page about her to show that her marriage ended in 01/2019. This is difficult because there is nothing published about her divorce. I'm trying to find out how to reliably source this because everybody publishes when they get married, but not many publish when they get divorced. Is there any way for her to get this changed? If so, could somebody point me in the correct direction so that I can help her get this taken care of? Thanks.

Maderaj (talk) 18:27, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Maderaj, please copy {{UserboxCOI|1=Emily Wickersham}} onto your userpage to declare your conflict of interest first. If you are being paid, you also have to ensure you follow procedure at WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE. SITH (talk) 22:08, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I do not have a conflict of interest. I do not work for Emily Wickersham I work at the same place she does and told her I would try to find out how to change things on my own time. This is all new to us so I appreciate the suggestions but I find it hard to believe that in 2019 people have this hard of a time correcting articles about themselves. I understand, because of the need to keep the integrity of Wikipedia there are going to be hoops to jump through, but there is no clear cut path to take and I'm guessing this is going to end up as a incorrect posting about her on the site because the only way to fix it seems to be for her to publish something online on a blog or web page. If there are any other avenues to look into I would love to hear about them, but I only have so much time to spend on this project and will need to move on soon. Thanks for any help. And apologies if I didn't post this with the correct coding in front or behind it.

(Maderaj (talk) 22:35, 12 February 2019 (UTC))[reply]

If she is in fact divorced, the way to change it on Wikipedia is that there needs to be a legitimate source/reference for it. So a link to an interview where she mentions being divorced, or a statement from her team confirming it. You can't just claim to know a celebrity and change something on their wikipedia page without sourcing it, otherwise anyone could write anything about any celebrity on here because they "know" them. Emily (talk) 08:03, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]