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Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Aabrahamsen2018. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:24, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Aabrahamsen2018. If you're trying to edit or create content on Wikipedia about your employer or to try and promote the interests of your employer, then you're most likely going to be considered to have a conflict of interest by Wikipedia. So, I've added the above template for your reference because it contains links to relevant Wikipedia pages that you might find useful. In addition, the statement you added to the very top of the page most likely would be better added to your user page instead since it seems to be sort of a declaration of your connection to your employer. Such a thing would be more appropriate to add to your user page instead. All you need to do to do that is remove the content from above, and add it to User:Aabrahamsen2018.

Since you appear to be somehow connected to LIMuseum1200, you might want to look at my response to their question about media copyright. Most likely anything painted by Mount is too old to be still protected by copyright; so, there's no need to upload files like File:William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), Christ Raising the Daughter of Jarius, 1828, painting.jpg as non-free content as long as its just a slavish copy of the painting and doesn't include any possible copyrightable elements like a frame, etc. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:34, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you got your assistance user:Marchjuly. I will make adjustments and changes and do my best to adhere to all guidelines. I am new to the WIKI world and am learning as I go. user:Aabrahamsen2018 4 February 2021

@Aabrahamsen2018: yes, but do you have a connection with the subject of the article you have edited? Willbb234^Talk (please {{ping}} me in replies) 09:22, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi Aabrahamsen2018. I saw your post at Talk:Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages and have responded to it there. I also noticed that you removed this statement from your user talk page, but don't seem to have added to your user page. Are you still the collection's manager or still connected to the museum? If you are, then removing what you posted on your user talk page doesn't mean you no longer have a conflict of interest with respect to the museum and that it's now OK for you to directly edit the Wikipedia article about it. You need to be very careful here (particularly if you're officially "employed" by the museum or represent it in some official capacity) not to run afoul of Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure because editors who make undisclosed paid edits can be blocked without warning by any Wikipedia administrator if the adminstrator feels that such action needs to be taken. New editors who mean well but just don't know any better often find out about this after it's too late (i.e. they've been blocked); so, it's better to sort it out sooner than later. Just for reference, "paid" doesn't only mean "monetary compensation" as explained here.

Part of the statement you removed states Our hope is by doing this we create more accessibility and interest in our collection by digital visitors as well as to help showcase artists that may otherwise be unknown which seems simple enough, but also seems to imply that at least some of your reasons for editing is to "promote" interest in your museum that has sort of a WP:NOTHERE feel to it. Please understand that while there exists a Wikipedia article about the museum, it's not written for the museum's benefit and neither the museum nor anyone representing it has any claim of ownership over the article's content. Article content (both text and images) is going to be assessed on whether it meets relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines and not whether it's what the museum wants others to know about it. This also extends to any other articles you may be editing about artists whose work can be found at the museum. The major revision who did to Shepard Alonzo Mount probably was done with the best of intentions, but you replaced some citations and neutrally worded content that had been previously added by others with a citation to a single source Shepard Alonzo Mount: His Life and Art apparently published by "The Museums at Stony Brook" (not sure if that's a publishing house per se) that includes lots of detail that seems to comes from a single page of the book (that's how the citation was formatted). The tone of what you added also seems a little too familiar for Wikipedia, but that can be sorted out; it's the origins of the book itself, however, that seem unclear. The LIM is a museum located in Stoney Brook which is where the book appears to have been published. Is there a connection between the Johnson book the LIM?

FWIW, I'm not trying to discourage you from editing. You seem to know lots about art and museums, and might be able to help improve lots of articles as a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts or Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums. I'm only trying to help you avoid running into problems. New editors often find out about Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines the hard way; so, if you have any questions then you can ask them below or even at a place like the Wikipedia Teahouse. You might also want to consider asking for help at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard if you have any questions about things like "conflict of interest" or "paid-contribution disclosure". As I posted above, it's best to try and sort such things out sooner than later because even an apparent COI can lead to issues with other editors. You also want to consider clarifying any other accounts you might've used to edit Wikipedia under. Having previously used a different account to edit is not in and of itself a bad thing and there could be lots of reasons why this is done, but it can also create suspicion, particularly if the accounts have similar usernames or have been used to edit similar articles. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:58, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

March July I have reworded/added back the description into my User Page. While I work for the museum this is a personal endeavor of mine that I am not being paid for, but I understand how my connection to the museum can lead to a COI. I had to change my username from 2016 to 2018 because of password recovery issues. I have put in a request to delete the old account to prevent confusion since I will just be working from this user and I have no done any edits from my 2016 user in a few years. In regards to the Shepard Alonzo Mount article, I have removed wording that is not a neutral tone and will fix the citations and add more. The Johnson book was written by an author not affiliated with the museum.

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William Sidney Mount and The Long Island Museum Collection

Hello! I took the COI tag off of William Sidney Mount, and removed most of the many, many mentions of "The Long Island Museum Collection". It's not necessary to mention it more than once or twice. The collection data can be kept on the Commons page's description. When you add "The Long Island Museum Collection" a half-dozen times or more to one article ( I think it was more like 8-10 times in this case), it does look like promotion, regardless of whether or not you are volunteering on your own time. If you can avoid that in future, you will probably encounter fewer problems. Thank you very much for your contributions. --- Possibly ☎ 20:20, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, Possibly! I definitely will keep that in mind for future contributions and will avoid doing so. I hadn't realized how many times I had added it into the article and can see how that sounds promotional. Aabrahamsen2018 (talk)