Kathleen Fitz
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editHello, Kathleen Fitz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! RFD (talk) 12:45, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
Handling a conflict of interest
editHi Kathleen. Following your post at the Teahouse, I'd like to expand on our conflict of interest guideline. Please read that linked page first. So far, this is what you added to our article on Joseph T. Fitzpatrick. Now you can see the problem. You have said "He was also Royster Fertilizer Company’s Traffic Manager" and I have no reason to doubt that is true. However, how is a reader supposed to verify that? Wikipedia policy says that readers must be able to do that because otherwise there is no way to tell that someone has not, maliciously or otherwise, added inaccurate information. So our articles are a combination of text plus sources. We suggest that editors with a COI use the Talk Page of the article to suggest changes. That way, experienced volunteers can evaluate the suggestion to check it is sourced and is of encyclopaedic value. We have an edit request wizard to help create these suggestions and ensure they are followed up.
As to the photo, please upload it to Commons as I've already advised. It may be a little tricky to find your thread at the Teahouse again as that's a very active area but if you have any problems doing so, just mention it here (where I'm watching) and I'll place the photo into the article. Regards. Mike Turnbull (talk) 21:48, 5 July 2024 (UTC)