User talk:Karencohick

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Contents 1 Re: Questions 2 Susan G Komen for the Cure edits 3 Susan G. Komen copyright problems 4 Image tagging for Image:Nancy Brinker.JPG

[edit] Re: Questions

Replied on my talk page. — FireFox 21:33, 30 January 2007

[edit] Susan G Komen for the Cure edits

Hi Karen. I assume from your edits that you are working or consulting for the Susan G Komen for the Cure organization, and you're updating details on Wikipedia after the organization changed it's name last week.

It is great that you can help with the updating, I would ask though that you read our guideline on editing with a conflict of interest. We generally ask that editors refrain from editing about themselves or their organization - though merely correcting a name or date is not a problem. A few of your edits have a bit promotional (language that's quite "marketing department-ish" and you've added external links that fail our external links guidelines) and that's not really appropriate for an encyclopedia.

If I'm wrong in my assumption I apologize and please do let me know. It's not my intention to accuse you of anything, just help your experience here be good for you and Wikipedia. Hope you enjoy editing here. And good luck to Komen on its name change. -- Siobhan Hansa 22:19, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I get that. I can work on the language so it doesn't seem as "marketing department-ish." Is it alright to still put up some of the history and research information? Is there a way to attribute those as facts rather than something that spilled from the marketing department? And thanks, so far our name change is going well.Karencohick 22:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

If you want to add new content about the organization ideally you'd put it on the talk page and ask other editors to assess it and do the actual editing of the article. If you go this route and find there's no one responding, let me know and I'll take a look at any articles that aren't getting attention.

As for having things asserted as facts, we look for verifiability from reliable sources. For things that aren't controversial or in any doubt your website can probably be cited (most articles use an organization's website for things like when it was founded and who is the CEO/ED). But for most things - like claims about how much money you raise, that you're the "biggest" something, that you impact the world in someway, or that someone else endorses you, an independent source that can be expected to have been fairly rigorous about fact checking is needed. Newspapers and media reports can be good (though they can be contested when they appear to be simply regurgitating stuff they got from spokespeople or press releases). Peer reviewed academic papers are generally the best sources. Sources do not have to be available online, but they do have to be published. If you need help on this (evaluating a source or working out how to reference it properly) let me know. I'd be glad to help. -- Siobhan Hansa 00:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Susan G. Komen copyright problems

Hi - Could you drop by the talk page for the Susan G Komen article and address some of the copyright concerns, please? Thanks. -- Amoore 21:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Nancy Brinker.JPG

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