Ryn AAPB

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A more personal welcome

Hi Ryn,

I posted a welcome template to your talk page just to provide you with some links to policies that may be relevant to you. I notice that you did disclose your relationship with AAPB on your user page, which will be appreciated by other editors. I did not see anything problematic about your edits so far - even though they appear to involve the subject you have a relationship with - so I didn’t revert them. However, you may want to go through some of the policies included in the welcome message I left, to help you avoid potential trouble later on. Woerich (talk) 15:48, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Copyright problem on American Archive of Public Broadcasting

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July 2020

Hello, Ryn AAPB. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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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• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
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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. ElKevbo (talk) 19:34, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

More specifically, please don't post links to your employer; make requests and suggestions of that nature in the Talk page of the article so other editors who do not have a conflict-of-interest can evaluate the request and possibly make the edit. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 19:35, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi ElKevbo, thanks for your due diligence on Wikipedia editing. My user page states my nonprofit organization and conflict of interest. I make edits as someone under Wikipedia's GLAM category, professionally affiliated with an institution in the cultural sector (such as a museum, library, archive, public art gallery or similar). These folks are "are a custodian of our cultural heritage, which places you [them] in a unique position to improve Wikipedia." I am collaborating with the Wikimedia Foundation to encourage the growth and development of free content, and to provide content of wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. I wish to be respectful of the platform and only pursue engaging with Wikipedia to strengthen the encyclopedia's knowledge. I hope that helps clarify my edits. I will be sure to add this to my user page, as well.

Ryn AAPB (talk) 20:38, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

I get that and I appreciate your work. But I don't think that nullifies either our COI policies or broader COI concerns and best practices. I'm sure that in most cases other editors would be happy to add or incorporate your organization's materials into articles; I just think it's a clear conflict-of-interest for you to add it directly yourself.

If there has been other discussion of this topic and consensus that differs from my understanding, please let me know! ElKevbo (talk) 21:00, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi ElKevbo. Ryn AAPB is editing in accordance with GLAM-Wiki. Many GLAM professionals and WIkipedians-in-residence work to improve WIkipedia using their organizations' resources, as this user is doing. American Archive of Public Broadcasting is active in GLAM-Wiki and has hosted edit-a-thons and editing events aimed at encouraging attendees to engage with Wikipedia. A similar practice can be seen on the Smithsonian's GLAM project page which lists employees working to improve Wikipedia using the Institution's own resources. Ryn AAPB is also editing in compliance with COI: GLAM which states:

Museum curators, librarians, archivists, and similar are encouraged to help improve Wikipedia, or to share their information in the form of links to their resources. If a link cannot be used as a reliable source, it may be placed under further reading or external links if it complies with the external links guideline.

Since the user is engaging as part of GLAM-wiki, which allows staff from galleries, libraries, museums and archives to edit and share resources, than the user should not be considered to be in violation of COI. Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 13:33, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

@Ariel Cetrone (WMDC): Thanks for the clarification. Can you please help me find the community-wide discussion that resulted in this addition to the COI policy? Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 14:05, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

dead links

Please don’t remove these as they can easily be replaced in many cases with a link via the Wayback Machine. Gleeanon409 (talk) 21:32, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

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