User talk:Amy Fisher

Welcome[edit]

Hello, Amy Fisher, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Stifle (talk) 19:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Autobiography and conflict of interest[edit]

We've got a lot of information available here on these topics. I would suggest you read the following: Autobiography; Conflict of interest; and "Nobody owns an article". And remember: as it says at the bottom of every page (including this one): "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed for profit by others, do not submit it." --Orange Mike | Talk 20:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

January 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Amy Fisher, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Amy Fisher was changed by Amy Fisher (u) (t) deleting 10775 characters on 2009-01-08T03:02:36+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 03:02, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 01:38, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 01:38, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring[edit]

{{uw-3rr}} Wuhwuzdat (talk) 01:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

{{uw-coi}} Wuhwuzdat (talk) 02:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

You have been reported at the Conflict of interest noticeboard Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Amy_Fisher, for your repeated edits to the article about you. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 02:14, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if both images (glamor shot added by Fisher and mug shot) both could be included, as long as someone besides Fisher adds the glamor shot? If that's the case, then the only remaining issue would be which one goes in the infobox. Ward3001 (talk) 02:22, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why would someone besides Fisher need to add the glamor shot? Free images offered up by subjects should be encouraged, not edit warred over like is happening here. Yes, the mugshot should remain in the article somewhere, but there's room for both and it's not a huge CoI concern on who adds the new image. --Onorem ♠Dil 02:54, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're more likely to keep the photo in the article ...[edit]

... if you'll let the consensus process take its course and not edit war. The image might eventually stay in the article (along with the mugshot), but if you continue reverting you'll be blocked. Ward3001 (talk) 02:26, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring (2)[edit]

You may find the report here; Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit_warring#Amy_Fisher_reported_by_Wuhwuzdat_(Result:_) Wuhwuzdat (talk) 02:43, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello[edit]

You don't seem to have got the most pleasant introduction to wiki, alas. Some advice: be aware of WP:COI. You will have difficulty editing your own page. By all means make photos or other information available on the article talk page, but if you get into conflict on the page itself you have no choice but to back off. Second, if you *are* going to keep reverting against advice, you will need to be aware of the three revert rule (WP:3RR). But you're better off reading WP:1RR. Please reply here if you wish to talk further William M. Connolley (talk) 08:54, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To expand on that a little, Wikipedia has some guidelines on dealing with conflicts of interest which you'll probably want to read before editing the article about yourself: although the punchline is pretty simple: be careful. Wikipedia is like anything else this big, full of peculiar rules and norms and can take a little getting used to. If you're interested, take a look at the welcome message at the top of this page to get a feel for the place. You'll also want to read WP:BLP also known as the policy on Biographies of Living Persons - a lot of acronyms fly around

As far as any potential issues with the Amy Fisher article feel free to ask for help instead of having to deal with it yourself. the biographies of living persons noticeboard can be used to request help.

If you need any help or something explained, you can leave a message here on your talk page, or on my own talk page here. Happy editing!--Tznkai (talk) 14:38, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I second the plug for the biographies of living persons noticeboard. If you think there is a concern with your article, or that of any living person, you will get lots of good eyes to help out by posting there. Baccyak4H (Yak!) 17:33, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]