Hello, Blindfoldking. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Timur Gareev, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 22:30, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Timur Gareev. Thank you. General Ization Talk 22:06, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi Blindfoldking, thanks for your message. As you have a conflict of interest the best thing to do is make suggestions to improve the article on its talk page and then other editors can change the article itself. Note that the subject of an article does not get to "approve" things like what is written or which photo is used, that is not how wikipedia works. For more information, see WP:BLPEDIT. The key thing with your suggested changes is that they need to be verifiable by reliable sources, that means, just because you know something about this person (because you know them) does not mean it can go in the article - you need to provide references for the information you want added. Melcous (talk) 00:45, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Blindfoldking. You are right about his name. en.wikipedia uses the FIDE names, so Timur Gareyev is correct. The way to change this is to move the page, which has been done now. Timur is known for blindfold chess, but not, as you wrote, uniquely so, since there are others known for that, too, for instance Marc Lang, Anand, Kramnik and Morozevich. The peak rating can be easily updated. Phrases like "astonishing" and "adventurous spirit" belong in an advertisement brochure, but not in an encylopaedic article. This is supposed to be a neutral informative article, it does not need approval by Timur. You made a list of his successes where prose should be used (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists). The article certainly should be updated, but not with an enthusiastical style. Regards, --Gereon K. (talk) 07:31, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- p.s.: it should be mentioned that the Usbek writing of his name would be Temur Gareyev. --Gereon K. (talk) 08:01, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
