Talk:Richard M. Friedberg

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Isatija (talk · contribs) This user has declared a connection. (Richard Friedberg was my PhD advisor from 1976-1983.)

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because it is meant to be a Wikipedia biographical page for the physicist Richard M. Friedberg. We are willing to make revisions to this page in order to make sure it adheres to Wikipedia's standards; we would very much appreciate it if you do not completely delete this page in the meantime. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Isatija (talk • contribs) 01:27, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Isatija: The problem is that the article is almost unsalvageable, there's so much text that is blatantly promotional. The article needs a *complete* overwrite. —C.Fred (talk) 01:33, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why are we republishing entire poems that may be subject to copyright? Legacypac (talk) 01:54, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

These poems have never appeared anywhere or been published. They appear in letters that Friedberg sent to Douglas Hofstader and Friedberg has given us permission to put these letters on the internet (you can see links to these letters in the references.) (Isatija (talk) 02:02, 18 March 2018 (UTC))[reply]

@Isatija: If you're in contact with Friedberg while you're editing, then you have a conflict of interest and should not be creating the article. —C.Fred (talk) 02:13, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Further, for the poems to be able to appear on Wikipedia, Friedberg would have to release them to allow unlimited reproduction of them, including commercial re-use and derivative works. —C.Fred (talk) 02:13, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback. I am not in touch with Friedberg during this editing process; I had already received permission from him to publish his letters on my web site (which include the poems) previously to my creating this Wikipedia entry. I will remove the poems from this page. (Isatija (talk) 02:18, 18 March 2018 (UTC))[reply]

@Isatija: If you've gotten permission to publish his content on your website, that still sounds like some kind of relationship, professional or otherwise, that would rise to the level of a conflict of interest. —C.Fred (talk) 02:20, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@C.Fred:You are correct, I have disclosed this conflict of interest. Thank you very much. (Isatija (talk) 02:29, 18 March 2018 (UTC))[reply]