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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Asvyatsky. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article AES+F, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you. Widefox; talk 15:39, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

@Widefox: Hi Widefox. It is standard practice for representing gallery registrars or studio managers to maintain Wikipedia pages for affiliated artists. You will find that nearly every Wikipedia page for living artists is constantly edited by people affiliated with the artist one way or another. If it's Wikipedia policy to "taint" such articles with notices of conflicts of interest (though I imagine that logically such notices should pertain only to pages about products or companies), then it will take a while because you'll have to add it to the page of every living artist. I am a trained art historian and philosopher. I annotated and referenced the article with many secondary sources, along with primary ones. If you have a complaint about my writing, please feel free to let me know and I will do my best to address it. If you feel like any information I wrote about AES+F is not impartial or is biased in some way, I will be happy to remedy it. Thanks, Asvyatsky (talk) 16:54, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Asvyatsky, that sounds interesting and I'm curious to discuss that more with you. But in the meantime...did you read and follow the instructions on the standard links I gave you above to see what we expect here? Widefox; talk 14:36, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

@Widefox: I have, yes. I'm not sure what ought to be done at this point, since the article is already written and I haven't yet seen a complaint about its quality. It's not clear where the disclosure ought to be put or how to remove the COI on the article page. Should I make my user page and put the COI box there? Where does the connected contributor template go? Please bear with me. Many thanks. Asvyatsky (talk) 23:42, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Did you read the links and follow the instructions, especially WP:DISCLOSE ? Your page User:Asvyatsky doesn't list a single article where you have a COI, and each of the articles should also have a template for your account. I'm not saying anything I haven't said before (above). If you need further help, I suggest you follow those, generic help instructions, or the instructions at WP:COIN. Widefox; talk 00:01, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

@Widefox: Hi Widefox, so I added a disclosure on my page. It seems that there is already a connected contributor template on the AES+F page. Anything else I ought to do to get the COI warning removed from the AES+F article? I appreciate your help! Asvyatsky (talk) 18:44, 17 February 2018 (UTC)