Talk:Brink Lindsey

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Edit request on 18 September 2014[edit]

The article subject's job description is out-of-date. I have a conflict of interest because I know the subject and so can't edit his article, but I know that he no longer works for the Kauffman Foundation and is currently vice president for research at Cato. For an accurate description of his current position, please see: http://www.cato.org/people/brink-lindsey

If anyone is able to make the page up-to-date I would be deeply grateful! Else.might.all.kings (talk) 14:49, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I work at the Cato Institute, as Brink Lindsey does, so I have a COI here and am not comfortable editing his page under those rules. I think the request is fairly simple: update the introduction to reflect his current title and status as a Cato employee. The information about working at Kauffman in the past could certainly still be included. Lindsey's official Cato bio confirms both his status at Cato and his former status at Kauffman. Can anyone help us out here? Any advice on best practices for getting minor, purely factual, changes like this made in the future would be helpful as well. Thanks! HistoricMN44 (talk) 14:19, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Else.might.all.kings and HistoricMN44. I have updated the entry. Please let me know what you think. Harej (talk) 18:25, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much, Harej! I really appreciate your making the article accurate. While this is a minor issue compared to accuracy, right now the reference links are not properly formatted. Do you think it would be all right if I formatted them, or is that a bad idea given my COI? Thanks again! Else.might.all.kings (talk) 22:33, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Else.might.all.kings, formatting the reference links should be fine. Harej (talk) 22:49, 24 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would just like to weigh in and say that if you're making high quality, well-referenced edits, your COI (especially if disclosed) doesn't matter. The WP:COI policy doesn't say you can't edit pages on which you have a COI, just that you probably shouldn't. There's some new nonsense from the WMF about disclosing COIs in the terms of service which is in direct contradiction to the local consensus on the matter, but even then, that's only about disclosure of COIs. At the end of the day, the rest of Wikipedia's policies (WP:Verifiability, WP:NPOV, WP:OR, WP:GNG, WP:RS, etc.) are designed so that your personal feelings on the subject shouldn't enter into how the article is written anyway, in the long run, anyway. So there's my two cents on the matter. 0x0077BE [^talk/_contrib] 15:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Secondary references needed[edit]

Looking over this article, it seems like it really needs some secondary or tertiary resources. I've been cleaning up a few of the bare-links references and I'm seeing now that most of them are either directly from Cato or just links to articles written by Lindsey. It's OK for now I suppose, but it's something to be addressed.0x0077BE [^talk/_contrib] 16:00, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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