User talk:KSJamieson

February 2024
Hello, KSJamieson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Mitchell Jamieson, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Shadow311 (talk) 17:04, 27 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know about the Wikipedia COI policy @Shadow311
 * Mitchell Jamieson was my great-uncle who I never met -- I did not have a personal relationship with him. I am updating his outdated Wikipedia page with publicly available, historical information which is readily verifiable through other sources and websites.
 * His papers are being donated to the Smithsonian Archives of American art, so it seems an appropriate time to bring his Wikipedia page up to date as well.
 * Please confirm that I can continue to make changes to the Mitchell Jamieson page. I am happy to disclose my relationship to the artist/COI as necessary.
 * Thanks,
 * Katherine Jamieson KSJamieson (talk) 17:27, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi. I'm actually your mentor. I'm actually in a similar situation; I have, too, have a long-deceased great-relative with a Wikipedia article. The best course of action is to add the sources you have to the talk page underneath the edit coi template mentioned above. If I had some information about my relative and was able to do this without potentially enflaming offline family drama, that's what I would do. The place to Officially Disclose the relationship is is on your userpage, located here. Courtesy ping to I dream of horses (Hoofprints) (Neigh at me) 02:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks so much for the response, @I dream of horses.
 * I'm new to editing Wikipedia, so I'll have to do some tutorials to get up to speed with posting. I'm actually a published writer (NYT, Boston Globe etc.), so I thought I could just jump in and start making the edits. None of what I want to post should be controversial, and, as I said, most of it can be linked to current online sources.
 * As I mentioned, we're in the long-overdue process of going through Mitchell's paper and art, and donating the papers to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. As we rehabilitate his historical record in the Archives, I'd like to pursue a parallel process on Wikipedia for anyone who comes across his work and is interested in learning more about his background.
 * I'll be in touch if (when!) I hit another glitch in the process. Really appreciate your support with this.
 * All best,
 * Katherine KSJamieson (talk) 15:48, 6 March 2024 (UTC)