User talk:NOLA Bee

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Marie Rosalie Bertaud has been accepted
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December 2021
Hello NOLA Bee. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:NOLA Bee. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:09, 16 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Beeblebrox. NOLA Bee has disclosed their GLAM affiliations on their user page and is editing in accordance with GLAM-Wiki. COI: GLAM states:
 * Museum curators, librarians, archivists, and similar are encouraged to help improve Wikipedia, or to share their information in the form of links to their resources. If a link cannot be used as a reliable source, it may be placed under further reading or external links if it complies with the external links guideline.
 * Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 17:39, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Would I then be safe in assuming it was you they are referring to in this edit summary ]? I assumed this was some sort of misunderstanding as to where authority over content derives on this project, I certainly hope you aren't actually advising them that you are able to somehow grant permission to force external links into image captions. Please tell me that is not what is going on here. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:00, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Beeblebrox My comment above is a response to the blanket paid editing accusation against a GLAM partner. Now that I have the context, I can say that the external links in the captions were a result of a misunderstanding. They were placed there in hopes of being more transparent. The issue will be further addressed here.-Ariel Cetrone (WMDC) (talk) 18:39, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

NOLA Bee I would like to add that my personal statement clearly states that I, NOLA Bee, am part of the GLAM community and my contributions are for educational purposes. The intention was to properly credit the photographs. Sincerely, NOLA Bee
 * We all appreciate GLAM and it's great that your organization wants to share resources with Wikipedia,, but when you say something like "We are working closely with the DC Wiki rep and we have received permission to include the credit line for our images" that seems to imply that your edit must be kept because you have cleared it with some sort of higher authority. That's not ok. I get that it was a misunderstanding, but I do hope you now understand the important point here is that assertions like that are not helpful and neither is edit warring. When you find yourself being reverted, you should discuss the matter, not just revert again. I'm aware there are a lot of things to learn when one is getting started on Wikipedia, so I apologize for picking one further nit here: when posting on talk pages, it is customary to sign your posts using four tildes, like this ~ . This automatically generates the user signatures you see on others' posts. There is also a button in the edit window toolbar that looks like a little squiggle that will do it for you. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the advice. I am going to take a break from Wiki.  The comments made by editors are not in the spirit of our contributions. NOLA Bee (talk) 21:40, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

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