Talk:Barry Wellman

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An individual covered by or significantly related to this article, Barry Wellman, has edited Wikipedia as Bellagio99 (talk · contribs)

Many of the edits by Bellagio99 (the subject of the article) are self-promotional and go against WP:COI. It is inappropriate to turn the encyclopedia entry into a personal promotional CV. It just doesn't look good for wikipedia. 64.171.57.60 (talk) 06:29, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

hmm, nope, there doesn't seem to be any self promotion there, just more or less the documentable history of one individual. please come back when you have a login name, k-tx-bai. if it was of course, i'd be right there with you.--Buridan (talk) 22:12, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

-- Buridan, AKA Jeremy Hunsinger, please refer to WP:COI, specifically the part about close relationships before defending the actions of Bellagio99 who also needs to read WP:COI, specifically the section on autobiographies and citing oneself. MultimediaGuru (talk) 15:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

hmm nope sorry, quality and verifiability trump coi in my book and i bet most people's. we have documented, verifiable material here of substantive quality and that seems to be generally agreed. thank you for playing. --Buridan (talk) 22:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in this. I disagree with your behavior and your conclusions. Lists of awards and key ideas, documented with refs, are not self-promotional. The article is carefully documented, and went through Administrative scrutiny in December. The version that existed until yesterday was approved then by an admin. However, more documentation will be added by third parties. It would be appropriate for you to become a registered user, so that your edit history were apparent. One WP editor has a possible vendetta against Wellman. Be well. Bellagio99 (talk) 16:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I just deleted a comment, by an unregistered user with almost no Wikipedia experience, that violates Wikipedia Privacy principles for editors. An honest mistake for a newcomer. Bellagio99 (talk) 14:11, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

-- Bellagio99, please refer to WP:COI before contributing anymore to this article or its Talk page. MultimediaGuru (talk)