talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Randykitty (talk) 22:49, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply
@WikiDan61, you appear more concerned with process than content. Someone, and not me, is actively monitoring Swain's page and inserting and reinserting material that differs markedly in importance and relevance from the main purpose of the essay, which briefly documents Swain's academic career. The recent "controversy" at Vanderbilt is a very minor event that, IMO, doesn't merit coverage in an essay about an academic with a lengthy and visible career. In past years, outside of her teaching, Swain has started a conservative talk-format television program (for which she sells advertising) with an evangelical theme as a major venture--that is not included in her biography. She has engaged in what amounts to a PR campaign in the conservative media in opposition to a nondiscrimination policy Vanderbilt University, where she works, has for student organizations. Nothing about that appears in her essay, and that's a much more relevant "controversy" than the Islam opinion piece. I think the "Islam" portion of this essay is neither neutral nor balanced and that material added to her profile should be scrutinized by someone other than the Swain operatives who inserted the "Controversy" section, which was yesterday converted to "Views on Islam." I'm happy to bow out, but if you want to police Swain's page, you should also be policing the people who keep adding Swain-serving material, like the fact that she said "she doesn't feel safe on the Vanderbilt campus." That kind of content makes Wiki appear less than credible-which is obviously true. I don't know how to report self-promotional posts, but I suspect you do, and Swain's should be reported.Minnie Katz (talk) 21:15, 26 February 2015 (UTC) Minnie Katz[reply]
