Museummeister

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Hello, Museummeister, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Being here to promote Viktor Wynd

Hello, Museummeister. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Viktor Wynd, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you.--McGeddon (talk) 18:43, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello again. So do you have any kind of personal or professional connection to Viktor Wynd, or would you rather not say? You're not required to answer either way, but it would be easier for other editors to approach your contributions in good faith if you could clarify. (One problem with a COI is just the careless addition of uncheckable facts, where an editor adds a personal detail they know to be true but which turns out isn't actually verifiable in any sources, and so shouldn't be in an encyclopedia.) --McGeddon (talk) 21:59, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

(WP:AUTOBIOG is worth a quick read if you're actually Wynd himself.) --McGeddon (talk) 22:02, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

I haven't met him but follow him on Facebook, twitter etc, read his book and have been to his shop, art gallery and museum. new on wiki, it's lots of fun, of to start editing other pages now!

Good work on other articles, the House of Dreams museum is a new one on me. But updates such as this one, where you add a plug for Wynd's museum to the introduction of the article on the great writer Alasdair Gray, seem overenthusiastic - is this small Hackney museum really the second most significant holder of Gray's work in the world?

Even if you have no conflict of interest here, being a single-purpose account can still be a problem. Please dial back the Wynd-linking. --McGeddon (talk) 12:37, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

slap on the wrist taken, will move on to new enthusiasms, Talliston House is amazing, i wonder if the shell museum in Glympton is listed, will find out. I've only been to two museums that have Alasdair Gray's work on display, and from the labels at the retrospective in Kelvingrove last year quite a bit was on loan from The Viktor Wynd Museum. Personally i would like to reedit Alasdair Gray's page so that 50% of it was about his artwork. When i am feeling braver i will try, Not quite sure how to add a new section to a page.

No problem. To add a new section just put "==Section header==". And to add things to categories, add eg. "Category:Shell museums" to the article rather than editing the category page itself. --McGeddon (talk) 13:16, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Carolinda tolstoy

Hello Museummeister,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Carolinda tolstoy for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Josu4u (talk) 09:45, 4 October 2015 (UTC)