User talk:MichaelScheufele

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Happy editing! Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 18:49, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sigrandson,

Thank you for your message!

Yes, currently I'm creating an article about William Jay Schieffelin.

His name is mentioned in many other articles in Wikipedia. So, I thought it would be a good idea to write about him.

Yes, it was a great pleasure to write this article in Wikipedia!

I noticed that Wikipedia attaches great importance to reliable sources. That’s understandable. I will therefore try to cite several, independent and reliable sources for all statements in my article.

I now look forward to having the article reviewed by an experienced editor and publishing it.

Many thanks for your support!

Best regards,

Michael Scheufele MichaelScheufele (talk) 06:54, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Now that's what I call being encouraged! Hope your draft makes the cut soon (as I hope my current slate soon will). --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 11:05, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

July 2023[edit]

Thanks for contributing to the article Charles Bosanquet (academic). However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). If you need further help, you can look at Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 14:05, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, MichaelScheufele. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Both writing about your relatives, and citing a work you wrote as the main reference in said articles, are forms of conflict of interest that should be disclosed. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 18:39, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Rosguill,

Thanks for checking my articles about the Schieffelin family for possible conflicts of interest.

I can confirm that I have no external relationship to all the persons mentioned in my articles because they are no living persons. Also, the company Schieffelin & Co does not exist anymore.

In my articles I often quote from my book about the Schieffelin family. But I only quote parts from my book that are also confirmed by other independent sources, and I have usually added these sources in the articles.

I also have no interest to promote my book out of commercial reasons, because my book is available through Open Access, so everyone can do a free download of the book.

I felt it was a gap that there were no biographical articles about these persons in Wikipedia. Now I hope, by creating these articles, to close these gaps and thereby to make Wikipedia better and more informative and more objective and more connected by links between biographies.

I always try my best to reach this goal, and I try to avoid manipulation.

Thanks, and best regards,

Michael Scheufele MichaelScheufele (talk) 12:36, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia's definition of conflict-of-interest is quite broad, and is not limited to commercial interests: you are still considered to have a conflict of interest in these contexts. Please read through WP:COI carefully and comply with the disclosure instructions on your user page and on the talk pages of affected articles. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 13:57, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Rosguill, now I have added my COI declaration to my user page and on the talk pages of my articles. Best regards, Michael Scheufele MichaelScheufele (talk) 16:32, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]