User talk:ArtLibAssist

Welcome
Welcome!

Hello, ArtLibAssist, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Hyacinth (talk) 05:10, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
 * Manual of Style

Adding links to getty.edu
Hi, it appears that your contributions to Wikipedia have so far consisted exclusively in inserting links to pages on getty.edu. Are you in any way employed or affiliated with the J. Paul Getty Trust or one of its institutions? If so, please have a look at our conflict of interest guidelines and at the following page containing advice for cultural institutions:GLAM_getting_started. Especially the part about adding external links:
 * "Generally, links should only be added to actual online information on the article subject, not to pages saying you have information but not showing it – for example, library or archives catalogues, or a page saying what a fine collection you have, without much illustration of it or discussion of the topic."
 * "Your purpose in editing Wikipedia should not be to promote your institution's website."

For example, the link added here is not consistent with Wikipedia's external links guidelines - it concerns just a side aspect of the article's subject (one person involved in three years of its >150 year history), and the link description is misleadingly claiming that those papers are available at the linked page, whereas it just contains information about them that is only relevant to very few readers, namely those who live near the institute or are prepared to travel there (>5000 miles/9000km away from the site of the article's subject), and are permitted access, which appears to be granted only to a specific group. In other words, the link is useless to almost all readers of the Wikipedia article, or worse than useless as it creates wrong expectations, distracts them in their search for reliable information about the article's subject and leads them onto a dead end page.

On the other hand, you would be very welcome to use your expertise in contributing actual content to articles, and to cite Getty publications as a reference when doing so.

If you are not affiliated with Getty, then pardon my above question, but in that case still be aware that you are not necessarily doing them a favor by creating the impression that they are engaging in that kind of activity on Wikipedia.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 04:31, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

January 2014
You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the notes for the suspect, then respond to the evidence at Sockpuppet investigations/Sslib. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:43, 11 January 2014 (UTC)