Talk:John Berry (arts administrator)

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Additional comments on 2 April 2016 edit[edit]

This is mainly directed to user Bobcajana, with respect to the recent series of edits:
1) Whilst the information on Sounds Alive Music Centres and Brereton International Music Symposium is interesting in of itself, it is extraneous to the immediate subject matter and distracts from the narrative flow. Hence I have edited it out.
2) Blogs in general are not proper, objective 3rd party references, and in general would go into external links. The one class of exceptions would be blogs that are from a newspaper's own website, as additional material beyond print (e.g. The Guardian, The New York Times). Uncontrolled gossip blogs like Lebrecht have no place on wikipedia.

In addition, I noticed that you have edited only John Berry's wikipedia page, and nothing else, on wikipedia. This leads me to one of 3 scenarios:
(a) You are a close friend of John Berry,
(b) You are a member of John Berry's family, or
(c) You yourself are John Berry. (This last strikes me as very unlikely.)
Whichever one of the above three scenarios applies, you need to be aware of the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest page. There is also a standard passage on wikipedia that reads as follows:

"....if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject. All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible."

I have no particular bias one way or the other towards John Berry. My concern is with objective and non-partisan presentation of the facts, properly referenced, on whatever subject, whether I personally like or not that subject. Cheers, DJRafe (talk) 16:09, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]