User talk:Jim Dunlap
Autobiography[edit]
Please do not write or add to an article about yourself, as you apparently did at Jim Dunlap. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:27, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
Your biography[edit]
Hey! I'm sorry that you feel there's something you need to change in your biography, we try our best to be correct and verifiable in our articles. However, there's a few things I need to mention that may help in the future.
- "I posted the changes because I am the person in reference and it's my own bio." - That's the edit summary you used when making the edits in questions. Please see our policy on ownership of articles and our advice for subjects which states, in part, "Wikipedia policy is that all articles should remain open for editing by our users as a process of continuous improvement". For this reason, as well as the policy on ownership, you cannot just make changes based on "it's my bio" or "I'm the subject". However, you are welcome to make changes that meet all policies, or suggest them on the talkpage of your article (find it by putting Talk:ARTICLENAME in the search box).
- You marked that edit as a minor edit. The minor edit checkbox is reserved for things that are minor spelling or grammar changes, or changes in the technical formatting of the article. You added and removed content, which is by definition not a minor edit.
- You added "He was also the Chief Proofreader for the On Viewless Wings Antologies, Queensland, Australia", but didn't provide a reliable source to support that change. Wikipedia requires, for verifiability reasons, that everything be backed by a reliable source. This can be summarized by this - a reliable source is one that has editorial oversight and a reputation for fact-checking. This includes most newspapers and online major news websites, along with major magazines, widely published books, and academic journals. These aren't the only reliable sources, but they're the most common. Wikipedia prefers that the sources be independent, i.e. not related to you in any way, but this isn't required. However, if you use a primary source, such as an interview, press release, or book written by you, someone could challenge the content and then remove it without an independent support to support the content.
- Again, you changed some things to past tense, where you didn't provide a source that you retired. I'm sure there's some reliable sources that talk about your retirement, why not add one?
If you have any questions, you can reply here, and I'll answer as soon as I can. Alternatively, you can go to #wikipedia-en-help connect (with your favorite IRC client, or if you don't have one click "connect" for a web based client with no downloads) for real-time help.