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Please help me with correcting and updating my personal curriculum Vitae page Benjamin Van Camp.
Benjamin Van Camp Bvcamp
- There are several issues here. First of all, to prevent you from being impersonated by random people on the internet, we need confirmation that you indeed are Benjamin Van Camp. You can email info-en
wikimedia.org with proof of identity; compare WP:IMPERSONATE. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I'm sure you'll appreciate that it's meant to protect you. - That said, being Benjamin Van Camp doesn't give you any special rights regarding our article about you. The article's content must be based on reliable published sources. Your changes to the article removed the few sources we had and provided no sources of your own. For example, maybe that you were made a baron was reported in the newspapers or some official gazette? That might be a useful source. See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. If you cannot provide sources for the content you'd like to see added, then you cannot add that content.
- On a more general note, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and an encyclopedia article isn't just a CV. Please don't treat it as one.
- Finally and even more generally, Wikipedia strongly discourages editing an article about oneself due to the inherent conflict of interest; see WP:Autobiography. It's considered best practice to propose changes to an article about oneself (or to any other article where one has a conflict of interest) on that article's talk page (here, Talk:Benjamin Van Camp) and to leave it to uninvolved editors to assess whether the proposed change improves the article and to implement it. You can add the code
{{request edit}}(including the curly brackets) to such a talk page request to raise awareness. Huon (talk) 11:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
