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Happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 20:49, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Hi ThalassaLib! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Hopkins Marine Station that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 20:49, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, ThalassaLib. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Hopkins Marine Station, 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;
• 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);
• 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. Kj cheetham (talk) 20:53, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Kj - I work at Hopkins Marine Station as the librarian, so I have significant knowledge of the history of the station and deep knowledge of the resources we can use to cite when adding to the page. Can you clarify for me your assertion that there is a conflict of interest here? I don't see how the person who is literally in charge of curating and sharing the history of an institution should be discouraged from sharing that information with the world via Wikipedia. My employment is fully disclosed in my bio. --ThalassaLib (talk) 21:17, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi, as per WP:COI, the fact that you work there means you may have a conflict of interest. It is good that it is mentioned on your user page bio. If you are being paid to edit Wikipedia as part of your role you'll need further disclosure, as per WP:PAID if so. I primarily wanted to make sure you're aware of the policies. -Kj cheetham (talk) 22:43, 22 March 2021 (UTC)