User talk:PitmanPainter

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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Rename to RStephenson not successful
I'm sorry, we already have one. Please make another selection.Deepfriedokra (talk) 12:04, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

I have changed your username; please address WP:COI by explaining how your future edits will be consistent with that policy. 331dot (talk) 12:34, 27 February 2020 (UTC)


 * addressing WP:COI, my future (and indeed past, as noted by 'Yamla' above) edits are to make the page more complete, to add more rigorous and scholarly references, and to flesh out the scant information that exists on Wikipedia. I have no commercial interest, and this is not advertising. My concern is to help position this page as a viable source of art historical information, and to add entries for the significant figures who are either missing or have underdeveloped entries. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by PitmanPainter (talk • contribs)
 * Having a COI has nothing to do with whether you have a "commercial interest" or not. Do you have any sort of association with this group? (please make further comments as standard, unformatted comments like this one, as you only need one open request) 331dot (talk) 12:45, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Thanks 331dot, I do have a loose association with the Group, but my objective interest is in my capacity as an Art Historian. My PhD thesis was on the Ashington Group and I'm keen to make this page more accurate, as you will be able to see from my previous edits if they're still live (ie. changing 'miners' to 'mine workers', adding in links to pages the wiki pages for 'Northumberland' and so on. Furthermore I'm keen to flesh out the knowledge on other pages such as Helen Sutherland, adding a page for the muralist and educationalist Robert Lyon ARCA, and other significant art historical figures. Thanks for taking a look! — Preceding unsigned comment added by PitmanPainter (talk • contribs)
 * Then the question is, after having read WP:COI, in what manner will you edit that complies with that policy? 331dot (talk) 12:59, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi 331dot. Yes, certainly. Would recommend I use the 'connected contributor' for any future non-minor edits to the Ashington Group page to avoid this happening again? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by PitmanPainter (talk • contribs)
 * Yes, you will need to declare as a connected contributor- how will you actually go about proposing edits to articles related to your conflict of interest? I really am not trying to give you the third degree, but I would like to be certain that you understand this. 331dot (talk) 13:14, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
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Thank you. 331dot (talk) 13:12, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure, I guess it will depend on the nature of the edit, I'd welcome your advice however. I wouldn't propose to declare the connected contributor for minor edits, grammatical errors, typos etc, but would it perhaps be more appropriate for me to us the 'request edit' process? Thanks for your help!
 * Please sign your talk page posts as described above. Yes, you should make edit requests for substantive changes to the article(minor changes like grammar/spelling don't need to use this process, but you should still declare as a connected contributor). , , do you find this satisfactory? 331dot (talk) 13:23, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I have no objections. I would support an unblock, but note I'm not the blocking admin. --Yamla (talk) 13:25, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I know, but as a prior reviewer who said the edits made by this user were appropriate, I wanted to check. Thank you 331dot (talk) 13:27, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm ok with it. -- Alexf(talk) 13:52, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi all, what's the next step with this? Thanks!
 * If you are referring to the block, it has been removed. You only need to proceed as described above(making edit requests and formally declaring your connected status). 331dot (talk) 16:32, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

That's great, thanks for your helpPitmanPainter (talk) 16:48, 2 March 2020 (UTC)