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• Is it legal to edit your own Wikipedia article if you disclose who you are?

  Yes. "Legal" is the wrong frame, Wikipedia is not a legal jurisdiction, but the policy answer is that disclosed conflict-of-interest editing is permitted under WP:PAID and WP:COI, provided you disclose the relationship publicly, work through Talk-page edit requests rather than editing directly, and support proposed changes with reliable secondary sources written in a neutral tone.

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• How do you handle Wikipedia content being scraped and republished with errors?

  Fix the error at Wikipedia itself. Scraped and republished copies generally don't update when the article changes, so the durable move is to correct the source and let the corrected version propagate over time as aggregators re-crawl and AI training cycles run.

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• How do you manage a Wikipedia page for a person who has multiple notable roles?

  Use Wikipedia's standard biography structure: one chronological main article with a section for each major role, a separate cross-linked article for any role that has standalone notability, and disambiguation pages plus a Wikidata identifier to keep the person's distinct roles tied together.

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• What is the Arbitration Committee on Wikipedia and when does it matter?

  ArbCom is Wikipedia's highest-level dispute resolution body, handling intractable conduct disputes that standard processes cannot resolve. It matters only in rare, entrenched cases, essentially never in routine reputation work.

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• How do you handle Wikipedia content that appears in AI-generated answers?

  Treat the Wikipedia article as the upstream source: correct it through a disclosed conflict-of-interest edit request, anchor the change in reliable secondary sources, then track how each AI engine picks it up. Retrieval-driven engines (Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search) reflect the edit within hours to days; pre-training-based responses shift over months.

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