User:Pigsonthewing/About you

If you meet our notability requirements (for instance because you've published a paper or book, or achieved media or sporting success), then there could be an entry (called an "item") about you, here in Wikidata, a linked- open-data repository run as a sister project to Wikipedia.

Understanding Wikidata

We hope you will make use of Wikidata, and even stay and help us to build it. You can get started with the links on our main page.

Every entry in Wikidata is uniquely identified by a "QID" - a number prefixed by a "Q", which is the last part of the URL for the item.

For example, the author of this page, Andy Mabbett, is represented by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15136093 - which has the QID "Q15136093".

You can see a cool visualisation of the data Wikidata has about you, by entering your QID, at Scholia

'Living people' policy

On 9 April 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees passed a resolution regarding Wikimedia's handling of material in biographies of living people (BLPs). It noted that there are problems with some BLPs being overly promotional in tone, being vandalized, and containing errors and smears. The Foundation urges that special attention be paid to neutrality and verifiability regarding living persons; that human dignity and personal privacy be taken into account, especially in articles of ephemeral or marginal interest; and that anyone who has a complaint about how they are described on the project's websites be treated with patience, kindness, and respect.

Accordingly, Wikidata has a policy on how we describe living people.

You may raise any related concerns on the Village Pump, on the Administrators' Noticeboard, or on the talk page of the editor concerned. If you are not satisfied with the response of editors and admins to a concern about biographical material about living people, you can contact the Wikimedia Foundation directly.

Paid editing

If you are editing Wikidata for reward (as part of your job, for money, or for some other consideration), you must declare that, according to Wikimedia Foundation policy on paid editing.

Your biography

If you add statements about aspects of your life history, like your birthplace, or things you have achieved, such as a job, qualification or honour, these must be sourced to a reliable, independent source (i.e. not your own resume or a web page you control).

Similarly you should not remove sourced statements - if you think they are wrong, please raise the matter at our 'project chat' page, where you can also discuss any other issues or concerns about the item.

Should it be necessary to verify your identity (i.e that your Wikidata account is operated by the "real" you), then you may do so by emailing our Volunteer Response Team.

Identifiers

We like to have a record of unique identifiers that disambiguate you from other people with the same name. These include, (but are not limited to) VIAF, ISNI, ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus, and Google Scholar. You may add them to Wikidata, or, again, drop a note on the 'project chat' page.

In particular, you may register for an ORCID iD; see ORCID in Wikipedia for details.

If your ORCID record incudes details of your publications, and is public, we can pull in the details automatically.

Wikidata editors

If you edit Wikidata, or one of its sister projects, like Wikipedia, then we suggest that you add your ORCID iD to your user page on each, by following our guidance for Wikimedians.

Photograph

We would like to include a link to a photograph of you, hosted on our Wikimedia Commons project. You should only upload pictures for which you hold the copyright (usually because you took them). If a family member, colleague or friend took a suitable picture, they can upload it. See our guide to uploading pictures of yourself.

Your spoken voice

You can submit a recording (or several, one in each language that you speak) of your spoken voice, so that people know what you sound like and how you pronounce your name. For details, see the project page.

A Wikipedia article about you

There are around 300 Wikipedias, in different languages. the "notability" criteria for inclusion (having an article about you) are generally much stricter than on Wikidata; please do not create a Wikipedia article about yourself. If there is an article about you, in one or more Wikipedia projects, you should be very careful to adhere to the local policy before editing it.