User talk:Seashell414

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Seashell414, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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Adding unsourced material[edit]

Hello and welcome! Just a note to follow the above: adding collections to articles is fine, but adding them without sources is not. All material on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable. Do you have a source for items like this edit?ThatMontrealIP (talk) 20:44, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ThatMontrealIP: it seems from here and, specifically here, that this editor's sources could (all) be at kiarts. Seashell414, it would be best if you could cite a source each time as you did at Olga Albizu's. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 04:09, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Mercy11: unfortunately the focus on the Kalamazoo museum extends to this edit that removed other (sourced) collections. I also note that the user's contribs (about 100 or so) are all about the same thing: adding the Kalamazoo museum. Seashell414, are you connected to the museum in any way?

Seashell414- Yes, I am an intern there working on a project. I am trying to backtrack and add sources. Many museums don't add sources to their collections section, so I thought it would be okay if I didn't source it. It's frustrating that other museums don't cite an item by the artist in their collection, yet remain on the list. It's unfair.

The formatting for many collections sections is rough, so I tried to clean it up. Make it easier to read. Seashell414 (talk) 14:23, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mercy11 (talk • contribs)

May 2020[edit]

Hello Seashell414. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Seashell414. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Seashell414|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 14:27, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ThatMontrealIP

I'm not doing this for money. I'm not getting paid at all. Seashell414 (talk) 14:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hello! If you are working for the museum (you say above that you are an intern), you are an employee, paid or not. We have rules about this to keep the Wiki neutral, since employees are by nature more likely to promote their employer's organization than someone unrelated is. Please disclose on your user page.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 14:33, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PS here is a user who also works at a museum, to give you an example of how to disclose your conflict of interest. What you have is a WP:COI, which needs to be clearly disclosed on your user page.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 14:42, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for disclosing. I fixed your user page so the template reads properly, as it was hidden with nowiki tags. I think your edits as an employee of the museum will be ok if:

if adding collections, they are neutral and fact-based,
you do not remove other museums from articles, as you did in an edit above,
you include and double check the sources,
you don't create new "collections" sections that include only the Kalamazoo museum. Focusing on a single museum is what we call WP:UNDUE and possibly WP:PROMOTION. An editor interested in the neutrality of the Wiki would add three or four museums, for example. Sorry for all the rules, but we are not really set up for editors with a single promotional intent.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 14:49, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 14:31, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]