User talk:Stewart at ArtPage

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Edits to Comparison of art websites article
You might get your edits reverted to that article under WP:COI. I suggest you familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's conflict of interest editing guidelines and take measures to avoid that. Jotamide (talk) 17:43, 4 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Jotamide,
 * I've updated my profile + the talk page for that article to declare the COI.
 * I was planning on making additional enhancements to the page, but after VViking raised the above guidelines to my attention, decided to delay doing that to see if other community members add them instead (believe that makes things less complicated). However if other community members don't contribute (there's quite a few options still missing) I'll add them in.
 * Is that the correct approach? The changes I were planning are:
 * There's quite a few entries for other websites that could be added to make the article more complete
 * I think the article could be enhanced to remove some ambiguity + convey more information through changing some of the columns, I created a talk on the article to try and get thoughts/opinions from others before doing that.
 * I also agree with you removing the column a user added just for one entry, but didn't revert that due to the COI meaning it could be seen as introducing bias to the article.
 * Thanks for making the article by the way, I would never have thought of a wikipedia entry for this kind of knowledge sharing but it's a good solution that can be shared/edited easily! ArtDotPage (talk) 18:05, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
 * For any changes, it's probably best if you use Template:Request edit on the article's talk page for others to see. Also, yours and other websites added since I posted on Reddit haven't linked a single reference. I won't remove those entries myself but don't be surprised if a mod comes along and removes them due to lacking notablity. Jotamide (talk) 01:49, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Well you weren't wrong, someone came along and nuked the article from 13 down to 4, including removing Skeb which had references and >1m users under "notability", so looks like the editor just didn't know the name so deleted them? ArtDotPage (talk) 19:42, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * That someone was the same mod that blocked your account prior to your username change a few days ago. So thank you, and everyone who rushed to add their own websites, for putting my entire list in jeopardy. It definitely wasn't be best idea to share this on r/ArtistLounge in the first place, lesson learned. Jotamide (talk) 21:36, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * To my knowledge I'm the only person who added their own site (at least openly, perhaps others done so under non-obvious usernames, but I doubt it), along with some minor formatting changes.
 * Apologies for my lack of understanding on Wikipedia's rules on the matter. After educating myself I'd made a suggestion in the talk page of the article to try and improve the quality of it rather than making any direct content changes; I actually want to add other entries (with sources) to make the article better, but I think due to the COI it's not worth the additional headaches that causes.
 * I do think it's useful sharing it with the community, there's no point in making list resources like this unless people use it! Perhaps when you share an article with a community who (at least in my opinion) will be broadly uneducated in Wikipedia's requirements (I personally had no idea they were this in depth until a week ago, although they make sense), it might be worth adding a note requesting people not to make edits unless they match the quality of other entries, or to make suggestions in the talk tab instead of direct edits. Stewart at ArtPage (talk) 22:08, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * If you really want to help make this a good resource for artists, I'd suggest you nuke this account and contribute as a regular editor without adding your website to avoid COI. Right now, the article was moved to the Draft space which means it can't be found using search engines anymore. And it will remain that way until every single claim on that table has a reference accoring to an admin.
 * I gathered some references on my user page to reinstate some of the rows, but if they keep upping the bar to allow this article to stay then I will just publish it elsewhere. A place like Fandom won't have as much traffic as Wikipedia, but at least my work won't get trashed like this anymore. Jotamide (talk) 13:59, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
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Thank you. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:26, 5 January 2023 (UTC)