User talk:Dandelionz

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January 2014
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 * on Snelling. Explanatory posts are at Jackson's blog on Snelling.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! North America1000 05:59, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

June 2015
Hello, I'm Fylbecatulous. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Luigi Rosselli, but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Fylbecatulous talk 11:54, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi Dandelionz. You have made it clear that you are Davinia Jackson (here and here.   Your edits are somewhat self-promotional (this series in particular, where you placed an in-line hyperlink to a website you own under the first words of the article. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some requests for you below.

Hello, Dandelionz. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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Comments and requests
Wikipedia highly values contributions by subject matter experts; at the same time, experts have some special challenges when they first start editing here. Please see the essay with advice for experts, WP:EXPERTS, which discusses both sides of that coin.

One of the challenges is related to COI, which has some interesting twists here in Wikipedia, since we allow editors to be anonymous or edit under Usernames here, and edits are immediately published (no intervening publisher or peer review). Please do read WP:COI, especially the section on Writing about yourself and your work.

Wikipedia is a widely used reference work; managing COI is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review.

Disclosure first: you have already disclosed your real world identity and your relationship with Snelling (as his biographer) in various places. (Note: if you want to remove the disclosures of your real world identity that you have made, you can do that by emailing the Oversight team, as described here: Oversight On the other hand, you may be happy and comfortable having disclosed your RW identity.  It is entirely your choice whether to disclose your identity, or not).

To make that disclosure complete, we need two things. The first is to make the disclosure on your User page, (here: User:Dandelionz). Again, you don't have to disclose any personally identifying information, but you should disclose the relationship (like: "I have written a biography of Douglas Snelling and own a website about him" -- and if there are any other topics you have edited in WP where you have real world relationships, please disclose them too.  Please note that your Userpage is not a webhost for advertising things you do in the real world - it is a place to tell other Wikipedians about your work here.  Disclosing COI is part of that.  Please see User pages for further guidance on userpages)

Second, you should make sure that you disclose your COI on the Talk pages of articles you edit, where the COI is present. An easy way to do this, is to simply include a link to the COI disclosure on your User page in your signature, which you can customize in the preferences for your account. See User:Middle 8 for an example. We can also handle this by using the "Connected contributor" tag in the headers of the talk page. The third alternative is to simply note your COI when you make comments on Talk pages. In any case, would you please add the disclosure to your User page?

Peer review step. What we ask editors with a COI to do, is offer suggestions on the Talk page for others to review instead of directly editing the article. Going forward, please do not directly edit articles where you have a COI, but rather offer suggestions at the article's Talk page? You can do that easily - and provide notice to the community of your request -  by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page - there is a link at "click here" in that section --  if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request. Would you please do that going forward?

You can reply here with answers to those two questions. I am happy to talk, if you have any questions or want to discuss anything, you can write them below. I will see them, as I am "watching" this page.

Just want to end this by saying again, that we love expert editors here, and deeply appreciate their time. So thanks!

Best regards, Jytdog (talk) 13:10, 24 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks everyone for your advice on conflict of interest and other editing protocols. I have started with a COI declaration re the two WP articles I have edited and am now going through the other suggestions re procedures.


 * I will upload my proposed changes for the Luigi Rosselli site to its talk page but I had assumed that all edits, if contested, could be edited by anyone registered, on the site itself. This seems to have been successful for my previous contributions to the Douglas Snelling site, where people may delete references to my publications if they really feel that readers should not know about these sources.


 * Dandelionz (talk) 05:03, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for replying and for informing the community that you are editing for pay. Jytdog (talk) 21:57, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest concerns re current edits to Luigi Rosselli article
As requested by WP editors in previous talk posts, I've now seriously studied various relevant WP policies and recognize that I have a) a conflict of interest in accepting a fee to help Luigi Rosselli answer the various WP concerns about his entry and b) as an architecture writer who has regularly written about Rosselli, I have been attempting to publish my 'original research', contrary to the WP policy of 'no original research'. Regret that I have accidentally contravened these policies.

I would like to record that two of my publications on Rosselli are cited in the entry on him at the Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture (Goad, Philip & Julie Willis, 2012, Cambridge University Press, p.606). The author of that item (P. Goad) included personal, original comments on Rosselli's style and productions of buildings (as is usual in reference books about artists and other creative individuals). It seems that these sorts of comments could be quoted in WP, off the Cambridge encyclopedia and other sources, but not if they are coming directly to WP from a topic expert.

Because the conflict of interest objections now make it difficult for me to help improve the Rosselli article, could other WP editors please help straighten out the concerns expressed at the top of the existing entry?

Many thanks for helping me navigate and clarify all these protocols.

Dandelionz (talk) 06:38, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

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