User talk:Abaldi1998

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Abaldi1998. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Layla Love, 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 edit COI template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see );
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see );
 * 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 Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted.

''Finally, please stop marking significant changes as being minor edits. "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.'' Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:07, 7 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Daniel! So sorry about marking changes as minor edits when it was the addition of information. I didn't realize what exactly that meant. I'm editing Layla's page as part of an art history course on modern contemporary artists. I'm not related to her at all. Abaldi1998 (talk) 19:20, 7 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I have no idea what sort of 'art history course' would involve adding promotional content to Wikipedia, but whoever is running it should familiarise themselves with the relevant policies and guidelines before encouraging students to edit here. Content in general needs to be based around published reliable sources that are independent of the subject, and this particularly applies to biographical content. We aren't interested in what Love has to say about herself. We aren't interested in passing mentions blown out of all proportion, and we certainly aren't interested in long lists of exhibitions and the like that cite no sources at all. If Love meets the relevant Wikipedia notability guideline - e.g. WP:ARTIST - it is because of what others have written about her. Self-promotion and/or promotion based on nothing but her own website etc belongs on social media, not here. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:14, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Andy, I believe I was adding things in a very neutral tone, and included an edition of several citations including articles written about the artist and information published from the galleries. Im doing my best to keep it as factual as I can. When it comes to my course, this is a learning tool for my course to see what we can conjure up on artists that don't have an in-depth wiki page. I'll try to double check some sources, and get more articles to reference outside of her personal website. Abaldi1998 (talk) 20:21, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Galleries are generally a poor very source to cite, since it is self-evidently in their interest to boost the material they are exhibiting. As for other content you added, we don't cite medium.com (or blogs in general) except in specific circumstances that don't apply here, and as far as I can see nothing else you added was both properly sourced and appropriate content for a Wikipedia biography. Or particularly relevant to 'art history' as far as I can see, for that matter. Perhaps you should ask whoever is teaching your course whether you could chose another subject that didn't rely on Google-scraping for content. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:36, 7 August 2023 (UTC)

August 2023
Hello, I'm Novo Tape. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Meow Wolf, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Sincerely, Novo Tape (She/Her)My Talk Page 19:54, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

More promotional content.
Given your recent edits, I am finding it increasingly difficult to give any credibility to your earlier claim to be be editing the Layla Love biography as part of an 'art history course'. Accordingly, I'm going to ask one last time whether you have any connection with Love, before I raise this matter at the Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:30, 4 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Andy, I added information mostly based on pre-verified resources. Anything that was new, I added as a separate edit, in case it was an issue with specific things. I added all information it in a neutral tone, making sure to source and cite everything added. Could you tell me how this is promotional content?
 * I do not have any connection with Love, other than a personal interest in the work she is doing on humanitarian efforts. I reviewed guidelines, and was hoping to see if I could accurately make these changes. Abaldi1998 (talk) 15:59, 4 September 2023 (UTC)


 * So, are you still editing the biography as part of an 'art history course', or not? AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:12, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
 * How is the reason I am editing the page relevant at this point in time to your claims of it being "Promotional content"? Could you please tell me how what I have just added is promotional content? Abaldi1998 (talk) 16:16, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Notification.
I have now started a discussion regarding your editing behaviour at the Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:12, 4 September 2023 (UTC)