User talk:TaurangaArtGallery-Ashlee

Welcome... but also...
Hi, I just saw your edits on List of New Zealand art awards, and I really do appreciate the addition (And we do want you to stick around and edit more!)... However your username (and your edits) imply you’re representing the art gallery. Per Wikipedia’s username policy you must have an account for you as an individual, and not for an organisation. The simple way around this is possibly to change your name (or create a new account) to something like “TaurangaArtGallery-Jeremy” or “TaurangaArtGallery-Manaia” which will link your account to your role at the gallery, but also make sure it doesn’t ever become a shared account.

Also... you may have a conflict of interest to declare, as you mayyy very well be making edits around your employer. Feel free to check out WP:COI for now, and let me know if you have questions. (I am a real person, and I am in NZ!) — HTGS (talk) 05:23, 23 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello! Thanks for your message. Can you help with how i change my username?
 * I made an edit as per the request of a sponsor (Seeds Trust) for our not for profit organisation (Tauranga Art Gallery). I am in charge of marketing & comms for the gallery and its not a shared account. Let me know :) TaurangaArtGallery (talk) 05:29, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries. At Changing username you'll see a few links (I don’t think there’s anything too much more you need to know but feel free to read the rest of that page if you like). The first link is Global user account rename request form. You should be able to just use that (if not, try the next one on the list, etc). Someone should read your message fairly quickly (🤞) and as long as your new request isn’t a problem it should just happen. Remember your account must be for you as a person, not for your role at the gallery (WP:ISU), so they won’t approve something like “TGAAG-comms”, but you also don’t have to use your real name if you don’t want to. — HTGS (talk) 22:04, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * As for your edits, those would definitely be COI, but because they’re straightforward I don’t see any problem there and we certainly don’t have to undo them just for me to add the prize back again.
 * It would probably be a good idea, once your account has been renamed, to create your userpage and write a wee intro and a disclosure there of any positions that would put you in COI. In future, if you want to make an edit for a page that you do have a COI on (other than trivial changes) it’s best to just request that someone else make the change on the page’s talk page (so eg, Talk:List of New Zealand art awards). — HTGS (talk) 02:15, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Great thanks so much for all your help! Noted. Have changed username and will write an intro on my page when I can. All the best! TaurangaArtGallery-Ashlee (talk) 03:36, 24 May 2023 (UTC)