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Hello and welcome! Just a note to follow the above: adding collections to articles is fine, but adding them without sources is not. All material on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable. Do you have a source for items like this edit? ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 20:44, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Seashell414- Yes, I am an intern there working on a project. I am trying to backtrack and add sources. Many museums don't add sources to their collections section, so I thought it would be okay if I didn't source it. It's frustrating that other museums don't cite an item by the artist in their collection, yet remain on the list. It's unfair.
The formatting for many collections sections is rough, so I tried to clean it up. Make it easier to read. Seashell414 ( talk) 14:23, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mercy11 ( talk • contribs)
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Hi ThatMontrealIP
I'm not doing this for money. I'm not getting paid at all. Seashell414 ( talk) 14:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
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14:31, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Seashell414, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.
If you are stuck and looking for help, please see the guide for citing sources or come to the new contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Here are a few other good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or . Again, welcome. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 16:29, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello and welcome! Just a note to follow the above: adding collections to articles is fine, but adding them without sources is not. All material on Wikipedia needs to be verifiable. Do you have a source for items like this edit? ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 20:44, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Seashell414- Yes, I am an intern there working on a project. I am trying to backtrack and add sources. Many museums don't add sources to their collections section, so I thought it would be okay if I didn't source it. It's frustrating that other museums don't cite an item by the artist in their collection, yet remain on the list. It's unfair.
The formatting for many collections sections is rough, so I tried to clean it up. Make it easier to read. Seashell414 ( talk) 14:23, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mercy11 ( talk • contribs)
Hello Seashell414. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.
Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.
Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the
Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at
User:Seashell414. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Seashell414|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}
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ThatMontrealIP (
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14:27, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi ThatMontrealIP
I'm not doing this for money. I'm not getting paid at all. Seashell414 ( talk) 14:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible
conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.
ThatMontrealIP (
talk)
14:31, 7 May 2020 (UTC)