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conflict of interest

It is apparent that you have a conflict of interest with the article on Matthew Tirrell ‎. Obvious though it may be, you must declare it explicitly both on your user page, and the article talk page. See our rules on WP:COPI and our Terms of Use, particularly with respect to paid contributions without disclosure .

Presumably you are accustomed to writing university press releases. As I have worked here as an editor and administrator primarily on scientific biographies for 7 years now, perhaps I can help you with the very different style for a WP article t. The most important point is referencing. Every individual statement in a biography must be attributed to a reliable third party source. The routine facts of an academic career can be referenced to the official CV, but any statements about the importance of the research must be cited not just to a paper he has published, but a third party source discussing their importance. Each award must be cited to a third party source for the award.

There are some easily fixable problems in the form of the references. An oral history must be listed under external sources, not references. References to journal papers should use the format cite journal, not cite web, in order to indicate the journal in which they were published. Please attend to these details, for they give an improper impression.

And mention NAE in the first paragraph--it's by far the most important indication of importance. DGG ( talk ) 09:24, 31 August 2016 (UTC)