On 15/02/2019 19:37, Pine W wrote:
When I read your article I am concerned about this statement: "Some advice for Olivia Colman: rather than “sending an e-mail to Wikipedia”, she can edit Wikipedia herself, like everyone else". That comes across to me as encouraging violation of English Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guideline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest. Can you explain why you encouraged directly editing Wikipedia instead of placing an edit request on the talk page or sending an email to OTRS?
Hey Pine, Thanks for your comment and careful reading. My piece of advice for Olivia is suposed to be rhetorical : I doubt she would have to modifiy herself her own page, as it's been proven that her birthdate was plain right all along the page history. My point was more to highlight the fact that a large number of people believe that a supposedly uncorrect fact on Wikipedia cannot be modified easily and one has to "send an email". And that journalists that publish this nonsense aren't aware either of the "anyone can edit" part of Wikipedia (in 2019!). Now, if a conflict of interest policy prevents you to provide a reliable secondary source about a factual point such as your own birthdate and edit Wikipedia accordingly, I find it would be a harsh conflict of interest policy. As a matter of fact WP : COI does not prevent to directly edit oneself : it suggests (along with your recommandations) to disclaim it in the edit summary. (And the "dealing with articles about yourself" link provided by Avery (thanks for that) is also open to that possibility. I would even find it harsh to argue that such an edit would "undermine the interests of the encyclopedia".