User talk:MicheleWrites

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Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Michele Bardsley, which 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! GPL93 (talk) 18:30, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

{{Help me}} I got on Wikipedia because researching crime and criminals for nonfiction pieces lead to me to Wiki articles that were incomplete or had bare bones information. I would like to work on those pages. I cannot update my own page because of conflict of interest. But I see it needs corrections (especially of the books listed and one detail in the biography, although my number of pets seems irrelevant to my body of work as an author). Is there a way to tell someone about the errors? MicheleWrites (talk) 20:33, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Michele. There is a way to ask for corrections and additions to your article. You can make a request on the talk page and an editor will make the correction or add information as long as it is within guidelines (for corrections, it is pretty straightforward as long as a Reliable Source is provided). You can find a simplified guide here. GPL93 (talk) 21:03, 18 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]