On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Snyder, Sara <SnyderS@si.edu> wrote:
There are a few examples of Conflict of Interest statements around; I recently posted one here, for use by GLAM professionals attending a Wikipedia Loves Libraries editathon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sarasays/COI
Might it make sense to provide an example (or a few multilingual examples) as part of the existing GLAMwiki documentation? Or maybe there is already one out there somewhere and I have missed it...

Particularly in light of the current discussions regarding paid editing (to which I've contributed several efforts asking for a definition of "paid editing" to which most seem uninterested), I think it's important to come up with a definition among the GLAM community, recognizing that it might go against the kind of black-and-white definitions that some want to propose (e.g. "any editing done with any benefit is a COI" - which I think is ridiculous).

One of the problems is that there are not enough examples.  The situation is so complex because there are so many variants - and I think it's necessary to cover as many as we can.

Bob



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