Talk:Steven Lubin

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[edit] Hello

This article was, somewhat unusually, written by its subject. This practice is permitted under Wikipedia rules, but it arguably is an area in which other editors ought to exercise extreme caution, because there's such a potential for conflict of interest. This is particularly so when the author is a performing artist, where career success is (for better or worse) coupled with fame.

In light of this, I've trimmed back just a little bit of material that I think could be interpreted as puffery. By this I mean the use of the word "celebrated" and the placement of credentials in the opening paragraph (which, in general, ought to be just a simple opening statement). I hope that the main author, Lubin, will not feel persecuted by this--my changes are modest, and the credentials material has been retained elsewhere in the article.

I also have what I hope will be taken to be a constructive suggestion, namely that if praise of Lubin is to appear in the article, it ought to be material that other people have written about him, for instance in reviews. This gets around the conflict-of-interest problem, and would document in more convincing terms the point that Lubin is celebrated.

Yours very sincerely, Opus33 17:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)