User talk:Pisa911

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Thank you very much David, I have taken the Adventure tour and done my first edit. I then submitted a link and request for checking: I had corrected a fact in an item and added three outside references. So far only a grammar correction, unrelated to my edit, came back. So I suppose all good? ;-) Feeling rather apprehensive, but hopefully this will become part of my daily writing schedule. Thanks again, Petra  Pisa911 (talk) 06:31, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, Pisa911, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

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Hello and Thank you for your detailed comment. I am a bit confused though and not sure if my reply here is correct, my first and last contribution so far was in 2016 and I am not familiar with a lot of the writing protocols. I have checked my additions and they seem to still exist, so where should I add my disclosure about my employer?

As I am aware of my conflict of interest regarding creating a stub for my great-grandfather, I still do not know whether I can go ahead with posting only the known facts about him. Could you be a little bit more specific if it is possible at all? He was not an important artists, but I have come across multiple auctions and sale pages, that use the incorrect information of a Wiki commons image and want to rectify that. So, instead of editing that info, I thought it would be better, under full-disclosure of course, to create a new stub, that potentially would open up the discussion. regards,Pisa911 (talk) 22:47, 20 May 2021 (UTC)


 * There may have been some crossed signals. You added a disclosure about Victoria University to your user page and you were asking about writing about your great grandfather at the Teahouse. I replied to your query at the Teahouse and I don't think there's much prospect of writing about Wilhelm Karl Dohmann at present, so no particular need to make a disclosure of your connection to him. As for your connection with the university, going forward, you need to be careful about adding material related to the university. It should generally be done through use of the request edit template. But there's nothing to be done about your earlier contributions. Let sleeping dogs lie.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 01:18, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks, and I'm still not sure if this is the proper way to write to get your username 'live', I have resigned myself regarding publishing something about my ancestor, but will continue to find a way that at least the museum holding one of his paintings amend their info. That would be a good starting point. Regarding the old editing, I have learned through this discussion, that if I discover more wrong facts about my employer, I will submit an edit request, to ensure no doubts regarding those facts can arise.


 * thanks Pisa911 (talk) 01:30, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * You did just fine.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 01:35, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

COI?
Perhaps the supposition of a COI was because of the statement on your User page about editing Victoria University? Which appears that you have not done. David notMD (talk) 00:06, 21 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi David notMD
 * I have only just now edited my userpage, what else would I need to do? My contribution was the correction of a name, adding publication sources for that.

Pisa911 (talk) 00:16, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Going forward, don't mention potential future COI, jus follow COI rules if you are making edits where you have COI (meaning that you should propose changes on the Talk pages of those articles rather than edit directly). David notMD (talk) 14:23, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

FYI in passing: it seems that the person who mentioned possible COI in his welcome above was a prolific but maybe incautious contributor who has now retired from Wikipedia. So don't take it personally, I imagine he may have simply judged in haste. (Not stalking you, honest; I came to your user page so that I could locate your post on Commons, and see if anyone had elaborated on the Teahouse discussion here.) Pelagic ( messages ) – (20:28 Mon 24, AEST) 10:28, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks Pelagic for your reassuring comment. PS: I have had a look at your user page too, always interesting to see what others choose to share! I had submitted a query on Commons, but so far not heard back, what is a reasonable amount of time before I may 'bump'/repeat my question?
 * Pisa911 (talk) 20:52, 24 May 2021 (UTC)