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I'm a grad student working for Kristin Gjesdal. I edited her page with a text provided by her, with the most updated and accurate info on her, but it was reverted. How can we solve this to keep my changes? Elibenjamin (talk) 18:25, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Elibenjamin Hi, Elibenjamin! It's a little bit complicated - I'll try to explain.
For starters, everything on Wikipedia must be sourced to a reliable source. Ideally, that source will also be completely independent of the article subject. (Some exceptions are made- for example, we can say "X academic teaches at Y college" and cite Y college's website). We take this pretty seriously on biographies, especially biographies of living people! For example, you're telling me that you're a student of Gjesdal's - but I have no way to verify that. I believe you, but I can't ask anybody else to, now can I? But, basically, Wikipedia doesn't post original research or claims. Like all other encyclopaedias, we're a tertiary source.
The next issue is that, if I'm reading this correctly, you didn't write the text yourself? Everything on Wikipedia is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. That means that anybody- from your local kindergarden teacher to Giant Megacoorporation #97 can use our text for any purpose, even commercially! By clicking "publish", you agree to license the text you added in this manner. If you didn't write the text, that's not okay. If Gjesdal wants to write text and liense it like that, she has to tell us that herself. But we'll worry about that once we get past the sourcing issue.
The third issue is, that as a student of Gjesdal, you have a conflict of interest. On Wikipedia, we need to be neutral. If you come on here and write "Gjesdal is the world's worst teacher!", she'd probably fail you, right? And if you right "She is amazing and I love her!", then you'd get a good grade. At least, that's what our readers will believe. To maintain our integrity, we strongly discourage editors with a conflict of from directly altering article text themselves. Instead, we ask that they use the Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard. That way, another editor will look over the changes and make sure everything seems okay. Why don't you give it a try? Pick a fact you want to add, find a reliable source that supports it, then make an edit request. Little changes are better at first, while you're still getting the hang of this. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 08:43, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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