User talk:Ed Brubaker

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Hello, Ed Brubaker, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Also, if this is the real life comics writer Ed Brubaker, you may want to take a look at the Wikipedia guideline regarding autobiographies. I haven't noticed any conflicts with this, but it is be worth checking out. --GentlemanGhost 09:41, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks, Gentleman, but...

...I won't be touching these pages ever again. Clearly I crossed some line I didn't know existed. I don't think I did anything POV, just deleted something and added some facts, but... whatever. I use Wikipedia for research all the time, it's a great place. Now I'll just drift back to the ether, where I belong. -- Ed Brubaker 08:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to hear that. Then again, I'd be sorrier if you gave up writing altogether. Keep up the good work! --GentlemanGhost 09:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reply

No worries about expanding your article, it was interesting and fun doing the research (and it wasnt meant as a favour to you anyway obviously!:)). However, you should know that though you are right in saying that it is considered a faux pas to edit your own article, if you ever think that anything in the article is inaccurate, unfair or lacks some important details you are encouraged to point out those facts at the article's talk page, where other more neutral editors can consider them.

You are right to ask me to remove the info about you being an editor. I thought that the fact that you have contributed to the site was notable so I added it in, but on investigation is seems that being an wiki editor is generally not considered notable enough to add to bio articles so, sure, I will remove it.

I dont think you should not be embarassed by your work here though. You were new and may not have been up to speed on all the rules, but most most new editors do far worse stuff like vandalise the site or plagiarise material from elsewhere. Your contributions mostly added new and relevant info to the site, and though the way you presented that info had POV issues, that was easily fixed and most of your work - the new facts you added - is still there.

I hope you dont give up on adding to Wikipedia. This is nor the place for a fan letter, but Im a big fan of your work and it is exciting to have you collaborating with us here. That said, I would choose to read a new Ed Brubaker comic over a new Brubaker Wikipedia edit any day so if you choose to spend your time writing comics instead thats great for me. Hueysheridan 18:12, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I've seen a couple of people get slammed for editing information in articles about them, but until the first time I saw that happen, I had no idea this was oh so forbidden, so it's hard to blame the people who know more about the topic (themselves) than anyone else knows for trying to get it right. (On a separate note: I love your work, Ed. Thanks to Daredevil and Captain America, I've gone back to try to find your DC work.) Doczilla 05:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ha, this is so cool!

I don't know if you check your wiki talk anymore but still it is so cool to actually see you contributing to wikipedia. I'm sure you've already heard all the usual stuff such as "I love your work, your writing is very unique and your work ethic is amazing (Uncanny X-Men, Captain America, Criminal etc...)" so I will not bore you any further. Still, I'm hoping to contribute significantly to the Criminal page and I hope that you will come back now and then and check it out and (if you have the time) comment. Though the records indicate that you haven't been active for almost a year so I don't know if this will get through. Zuracech lordum 15:37, 23 April 2007 (UTC)