User talk:Kristi at Museum of Anthropology at UBC

June 2024
Hello, Museum of Anthropology at UBC. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Museum of Anthropology at UBC, 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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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. Thank you. Garsh (talk) 18:36, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

June 2024
My username is GreenLipstickLesbian, and I'm an editor here at the English Wikipedia. I recently had to partially undo some of your edits over at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC Wikipedia article. This is because they added material first published on another site. On Wikipedia, we have really strict copyright rules. Everything here must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0 (or something similar). Wikipedia is special. We like to make our text free to anybody in the world- from individuals to businesses. (Yes, that means that people can use our site for commercial reasons, as long as they follow the terms of the license!) If you want to donate this text to Wikipedia, there's a special process you need to follow. The easiest way is place a statement saying that text is licensed under the CC-BY-SA 4 license on the website.

There's another issue. This account's name implies that it is owned by an organization. On Wikipedia, we only allow accounts that are owned by individual people. You can't let anybody else access your accounts. If this account is being run by an individual, then you can request a change of username to reflect that. For example, you could become User:Marie from Museum of Anthropology at UBC or User:Steve from Museum of Anthropology at UBC. If this account isn't, then any individual who wishes to edit on the behalf of the museum will have to create their own, brand-new account.

Once you've done that, you'll have to formally declare your conflict of interest. I'm disappointed that you didn't respond to my fellow editor Garsh's request to do so above. Please re-read it, and follow the rules they laid out for you. Failure to comply with those rules is serious, and your account will be blocked. Wikipedia isn't a place to advertise anything, even museums. We're an encyclopaedia. We may be the first result on Google, but your own site is number two. Use it, not us, general-purpose information about your events, exhibits, and buildings.

That being said, please use us if you want to upload pictures of old artefacts, or add well-sourced information about notable people, places, or events! Lots of museums even run fancy programs for this.

All that being said, happy editing! If you need any help, you can ask me on my talk page or this forum. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 10:04, 15 June 2024 (UTC)