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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Heda2022. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Lord Belbury (talk) 08:25, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Lord Belbury. I have external review sources for this book, and since it will be featured in an upcoming TV documentary, I would like to be sure it is searchable on Wikipedia. How would I go about uploading this information? Thanks. Heda2022 (talk) 12:27, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

You can include those sources as references, if they meet WP:RS. But if you are personally or professionally connected to the writer Heather Day Gilbert, you must disclose this, and should not write directly into Wikipedia articles about her books. See the links above for more information about that. --Lord Belbury (talk) 09:40, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

I will try to edit it in the request edit template. However, I am unsure how simply neutrally listing a book that is a biographical historical account of the entry subject would go against this Wikipedia rule: "To put it another way, articles should be written in natural, but neutral, language and merely summarize factual information from third-party articles, studies, reports, and books that are already in print. This contrasts with what many people with a conflict of interest often do, which is to write in a promotional tone summarizing their own highly favorable personal knowledge and opinions of the topic," since it's not using any favorable language and simply summarizing factual info from a book that is available for sale online vendors. I'd be really curious as to how large publishers list their authors/books on Wikipedia without paying someone to do that for them or doing it themselves. Thank you. Heda2022 (talk) 13:20, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Deciding to add one specific book and no others to an article is not a neutral act.

I don't believe that large publishers "list" their books in any sense, on Wikipedia. Book articles are created by members of the public who are interested in the books, but who have no professional connection to them. --Lord Belbury (talk) 13:32, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for that explanation. Heda2022 (talk) 13:41, 21 September 2022 (UTC)