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From time to time, notable people come to edit
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Conflict of interest, notability and neutrality may all be genuine issues that very much need addressing, but please, let's be sensitive about how we go about it, and not abuse the relative advantage we have over notable people when they come here to edit. We should always
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Knowledge is a great leveler. Notable people are people, and usually interesting and talented people at that. The
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and on the web, and post the available sources on the relevant talk page. Explain to the editor that these are the sources that should mainly be reflected in the article.
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Remember that editing with a conflict of interest is not forbidden, only discouraged. The content of an edit is more important than the editor who made it.
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Before nominating an article for deletion, make a good-faith effort to check notability against the notability criteria. Look for sources in
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for us if we approach them in a spirit of camaraderie and help them find their feet here, rather than throwing the book at them.
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just because they have used a word like "libelous", but do make them aware of
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