Hi all,
As part of the #strike4blacklives there's an all day Wikipedia editathon going on today. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1270478316483620871
Join the program here: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Strike4BlackLives/editWikipedi...
to have your edits counted as part of the event; and/or sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegYS9NrEHwayncxSLRIl-iDORi17yUAJZq...
to get details of the all-day office hours on Zoom. I'll be on this evening and am running a training at 2:30. Join us!
Phoebe
Hi all,
I need your advice on what to do. My aunt, in her 70s, is a Wikipedia editor in Richmond. She has written lots of articles on art in Richmond, and local history, and has had a few of her articles flagged for Conflict of Interest, and she needs help on how to proceed. Any thoughts?
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The Conflict of Interest policy isn't for people who write about their own cities, local history, and so on. It's for city officials, business owners, and so on who are promoting their own institutions (or promoting someone else's for pay). If she works for the Richmond Tourist Board or something like that, there's a problem. If she's just a motivated resident, there isn't.
That said, it's important that she edit from a Neutral Point of View https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view and avoid promoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox_or_means_of_promotion Richmond. It's important to avoid puffery and peacock terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Puffery. So she shouldn't write "Richmond's Athenaeum is a magnificent 18th century library with the most beautiful manuscript collection south of New York City." but rather something like "The Richmond Athenaeum is housed in a building designed by William Mayhew and completed in 1767.[[footnote]] The Virginia Association of Architects named it as one of only 3 'Extraordinary Monuments' in Virginia.[[footnote]] Its manuscript collection includes multiple copies of the *Vienna Psalter.*[[footnote]]*" *Too much detail can also be a sign of over-enthusiasm going beyond a neutral point of view.
She can contact me on my WP user talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Macrakis if she likes.
-s
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 1:50 PM Teresa Cordova teresa.cordova72@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I need your advice on what to do. My aunt, in her 70s, is a Wikipedia editor in Richmond. She has written lots of articles on art in Richmond, and local history, and has had a few of her articles flagged for Conflict of Interest, and she needs help on how to proceed. Any thoughts?
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