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Latest comment: 1 year ago12 comments5 people in discussion
There are actually two authors in the published world named Kevin Chapman. This page is about Kevin G. Chapman. The page should reflect the "G." if possible. Is it allowed to edit the main title of the page? If so, please make it: Kevin G. Chapman (author). KevinGChapman (talk) 19:27, 15 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
I am Kevin's wife, and we thank you for creating this page. Kevin truly appreciates it. However, I have edited it to remove content that I consider to be a threat to our personal security. Thank you for understanding! InsidePitcher (talk) 23:14, 15 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
I think that can probably be done under WP:BLPPRIVACY. However because it was covered in a reliable source, there's always the risk that someone will add it back. @Discospinster would you object if I remove it?
@InsidePitcher @KevinGChapman neither of you should be editing the article directly due to the WP:COI guidelines, although the middle initial is fine. What's helpful going forward is if you leave a note here or make use of WP:Edit requests to flag an edit that needs making. If either of you is aware of more media coverage of the books to expand this article, that would definitely be helpful. Thanks! StarMississippi23:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
This is a request for a very small change on the page that we feel is a very important issue. We would be very happy to cooperate with editors to provide more content for the page, but this is a privacy issue that is particularly worrisome to us. InsidePitcher (talk) 04:26, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
The claim that there is a privacy issue seems tenuous, at best, given that a combination of the name and town as a search in Google turns up on the first page, including more than a dozen reviews, summaries and articles that directly site the author and the place where he lives. We could bowdlerize Wikipedia and censor the name of the town, but the author himself seems to share the details widely on his own and has done so over a span of years. If the individual was keeping the details private and we editors dug into primary sources or old references to pry into the identity of the town, I could understand the perception by the individual and his family that Wikipedia is posing "a threat to our personal security", but the details are widely available in recent sources. If "New Jersey" (or some more specific, but equally ambiguous, region of the state) is listed, it's not wrong, per se. If that ends this, I will pose no further objection. Alansohn (talk) 15:16, 16 February 2023 (UTC)Reply
