LitLibraryLove

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, GladstonesLibrary. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Gladstone's Library, 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, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Theroadislong (talk) 12:24, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello ScottishFinnishRadish.

I have just received notification of my ban. I have added an edit request on the Gladlib talk page, as advised. Can I confirm this is visible and will remain in situ?

I do represent the Library and am trying to clear up inaccuracies and add citations. I used the COI tag.

Thanks GladstonesLibrary (talk) 12:46, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

The request will remain in place. In the block notice below there are instructions to request a account rename as well. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:06, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Re: name - I think that should already be done? I'm new to the Wiki system.

Bit concerned about some of the post-hoc edits on the page by another editor. It looks as though info that was independently added (some years ago) has been stripped off due to my requests today. The requests were to update material with citations and improve accuracy.

I'm happy to provide independent citations and am wholly committed to adhering to the Wiki standards. The tone of the response to the propose edits and reinstatements is concerning. GladstonesLibrary (talk) 13:09, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

March 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website, I have blocked this account from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable, regardless of the username that you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid or compensated in any way, you must disclose who is paying you to edit here.

Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a username change of your current account here. The new username that you choose must represent you as an individual person, and it must comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

• To create a new account with a different username, simply log out of this account and then click here to make a new one.
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Thank you. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:42, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

LitLibraryLove (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

LitLibraryLove (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

username changed on request to comply with Wiki standards GladstonesLibrary (talk) 13:10, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I have renamed your account and will remove the block. I've fixed your edit request to put the correct template to notify other editors of your request. 331dot (talk) 13:36, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much. It's appreciated GladstonesLibrary (talk) 13:23, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Are you a library employee? 331dot (talk) 13:22, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Yes. Another mod has posted me toward COI policies and declarations. GladstonesLibrary (talk) 13:23, 13 March 2023 (UTC)