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I would like to issue a general conflict of interest statement for all of the pages I have ever edited. As I edit any page, I grow to develop a relationship with the subject of it. As such, I am not a neutral party to it. I will attempt to list the possible, more specific potential and actual conflict of interests below. |
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=== Conflict of Interest statement - BYU === |
=== Conflict of Interest statement - BYU === |
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I am the Coordinator of Wikipedia Initiatives at the [[Harold B. Lee Library]]. I am employed by [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) to improve Wikipedia. I'll do my best to maintain an neutral POV, but there's no way to eradicate unconscious bias. Please contact me via my talk page if you'd like to make my unconscious bias conscious. My compensation is hourly and not contingent on any particular contribution. However, curators and other librarians sometimes request that I work on certain pages. You can find most, if not all, of the pages we have worked on under [[:Category:Harold_B._Lee_Library-related_articles]]. |
I am the Coordinator of Wikipedia Initiatives at the [[Harold B. Lee Library]]. I am employed by [[Brigham Young University]] (BYU) to improve Wikipedia. I'll do my best to maintain an neutral POV, but there's no way to eradicate unconscious bias. Please contact me via my talk page if you'd like to make my unconscious bias conscious. My compensation is hourly and not contingent on any particular contribution. However, curators and other librarians sometimes request that I work on certain pages. You can find most, if not all, of the pages we have worked on under [[:Category:Harold_B._Lee_Library-related_articles]]. |
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=== Conflict of Interest Statement - AML === |
=== Conflict of Interest Statement - AML === |
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I am currently on the board for the [[Association for Mormon Letters]] (AML), a volunteer organization that promotes Mormon literature. I believe there is an overlap of interests between AML, the BYU Library, and Wikipedia in supplying accurate information about Mormon authors to the public. My students have worked on the AML Wikipedia page and the Wikipedia page for AML's periodical, [[Irreantum]]. The BYU Library and our special collections contain the papers of past AML presidents and we have the old AML annuals on our stacks. I created a page for [[Melissa Leilani Larson]] before I was a member of the board. I have been on four judging panels for the AML awards, and I have not created pages for books that won awards that I was a judge for. |
I am currently on the board for the [[Association for Mormon Letters]] (AML), a volunteer organization that promotes Mormon literature. I believe there is an overlap of interests between AML, the BYU Library, and Wikipedia in supplying accurate information about Mormon authors to the public. My students have worked on the AML Wikipedia page and the Wikipedia page for AML's periodical, [[Irreantum]]. The BYU Library and our special collections contain the papers of past AML presidents and we have the old AML annuals on our stacks. I created a page for [[Melissa Leilani Larson]] before I was a member of the board. I have been on four judging panels for the AML awards, and I have not created pages for books that won awards that I was a judge for. |
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I started a Discord group for members of the Association for Mormon Letters to share information and discuss Mormon criticism. I created a channel for discussion of my Wikipedia work there because I wanted feedback from other interested editors and I often had a hard time getting feedback on my edits on individual talk pages. I never asked members of our Discord to comment or vote a certain way on any page. I have used it to ask for help with research, for opinions on administrative things, and to vent about frustrations about my work. |
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=== Conflict of Interest Statement - Member of the LDS Church and the Book of Mormon=== |
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I am a member of the LDS Church. As an active member, I donate 10% of my income to the church. I attend services on Sundays. I personally believe that the Book of Mormon is sacred writ. I do not believe that the question of whether or not the book is an archeological document is important to its spiritual meaning in my life. |
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==== Conflict of Interest Statement - Relief Society ==== |
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I am a member of the women's organization for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which is called the Relief Society. |
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=== Conflict of Interest Statement - Graduate student at Brigham Young University studying Mormon literature === |
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I am currently a graduate student at Brigham Young University. I am writing my thesis on Mormon literature. My thesis committee consists of Michael Austin, Christopher Blythe, and Matthew Wickman. Christopher Blythe is a past editor of the Journal of Mormon History. However, he was not the editor who coordinated the peer reviews of the article on the Relief Society literary curriculum that I recently published with Michael Austin. Neither was he the peer review coordinator for the upcoming article I am publishing on the Mormon Esperanto Society. |
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I have recently submitted a chapter on Nephi Anderson's novella "Beyond Arsareth" to a collection that Sarah Reed and Scott Hales are editing. Before I decided to contribute a chapter, I improved the bibliography section on the Nephi Anderson Wikipedia page as part of my work to help other people who might want to study Anderson's works, which were often published periodically and can be a pain to track down. Many of the periodicals his work appears in have been digitized by the BYU Library. In the process of editing, I used and improved the research resources on Nephi Anderson that Scott and Sarah are developing. Scott Hales currently works at the Church History Library and his dissertation was on Mormon literature. Sarah is a professor here at BYU. |
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Michael Austin has published a lot on Mormon studies in a professional capacity. We have been using his recent ''Testimony of Two Nations'' as one of the sources for literary criticism of the Book of Mormon. He is on the board of '''Dialogue'''. He was a co-founder of BCC Press, and was its publication editor until late 2023. We are presenting on Mormon hymnody at the Mormon History Association conference in a panel we put together on the topic with another employee of the BYU library. |
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In fall 2023, I attended the Book of Mormon Association conference in a work capacity. One of the organizers, Kim Matheson, is an acquaintance of mine outside of my work. I brought two of my students with me to this conference as part of their job, where we met in-person many of the authors whose work we have been citing in our improvements to Book of Mormon pages. These authors included John Thomas, Robert Rees, Elizabeth Fenton, Jared Hickman, Joseph Spencer, Rosalynde Welch, and many others. |
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When I wrote the page for Steve L. Peck and his bibliography at the request of our 21st-century manuscripts curator for my work, I was a fan of his work. I have since become Steve Peck's friend, and we are planning to present on Mormon aesthetics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. |
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[[User:P-Makoto|P-Makoto]] and I have attended several of the same academic conferences related to Mormon studies, including the Mormon History Association conference in 2022, the Book of Mormon Association conference in fall 2023, and we will be both attending the Mormon History Association conference in 2024. We are friends. |
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=== Conflict of Interest Statement - The ARCH-HIVE === |
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I am a current patron of the ARCH-HIVE on Patreon. I participate in this community of Mormon artists. Their shows have featured work by artists whose pages I have worked on for work, for example, [[Matt Page (artist)]], whose page I created when our 21st-century curator requested that I work on his page after acquiring some of his personal papers. I created a Wikipedia page for the ARCH-HIVE on my personal time with my [[User:Rwelean|personal account]] to avoid COI as a paid editor, even though their zines have been acquired by our special collections and there was a clear work justification for it. |
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==My students== |
==My students== |
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About Me
I am the Wikipedian-in-Residence for the Harold B. Lee Library at BYU. This is my account for edits I make for work. I make personal edits under the account Rwelean.
The Harold B. Lee has a work-in-progress GLAM page. I'm also interested in ways library special collections can be used as sources on Wikipedia while staying within Wikipedia's guidelines for reliable sources (see this discussion). Thank you for your patience as I learn how to edit Wikipedia!
I was on the editorial board for the WikiJournal of Humanities.
Presentations and handouts I've made
I've made some content to help others learn about various aspects of Wikipedia and Wikimedia. Please feel free to reuse them as long as you credit me as the original author.
- Leveraging the Power of Wikipedia and Wikidata for Your Library - How Wikipedia can help libraries and how libraries can help Wikipedia. Short introductory presentation for the Utah Library Association in 2023. My colleague Nicole Lewis presented the Wikidata portion.
- Why Wikipedians-in-Residence Should Edit Wikipedia - Wikipedia has many content gaps. Wikimedians-in-Residence are perfectly positioned to help fill some of them. Presentation for Wikimedia+Libraries and Wikimania's WREN session in 2022.
- Redefining Outreach "Failure" - We have measured outreach success through the number of attendees, edits, and new pages created. But what are some other ways that outreach can succeed? Another presentation for Wikimedia+Libraries 2022.
- Guide to Writing Children's Book Pages on Wikipedia - This is an in-depth guide I made for our Coretta Scott King Award edit-a-thon in February 2019. I also put it on Wikipedia as a how-to essay.
- How to track and increase page views for images on the Wikimedia Commons - short presentation I gave at 2018 Wikiconference North America. Depending on when you're reading this, the tracking tools may or may not still work.
- Mix'n'match and your data - another presentation I gave at 2018 Wikiconference North America. Mix'n'match is a tool you can use to link database records to their corresponding Wikidata items. This could be part of a "linked data" initiative at your library! Wikidata is still in an early phase where everyone is adding stuff. I like to think of contributing to Wikidata as making deposits in a databank. The more everyone contributes good data, the more it will be useful to everyone (we hope).
- Editing Wikipedia as a PR Person - some people think that PR people shouldn't edit Wikipedia at all, but I don't think we can stop them. Let's teach them how they can contribute.
- Dreamyshade has an excellent "Wikipedia in 15 minutes" presentation. I made a handout based on the presentation for a volunteer organization at BYU that usually works with family history and record transcription. It has a lot of information specific to their group, but maybe you will find it helpful.
- Simple English Wikipedia - a presentation I gave to a linguistics class to prepare them for an assignment to "translate" a page from English Wikipedia to Simple English Wikipedia. Be sure to see the notes on each slide for the relevant information--I give a nice overview of what linguists have done with Simple English Wikipedia in the notes on slide 4. Also, I have since found out that copy-pasting from VE to VE is effective and retains references (so copy-pasting from source editor to another source editor isn't required). There may be issues with other page elements, however.
Conflict of Interest statements
Blanket Conflict of Interest statement=
I would like to issue a general conflict of interest statement for all of the pages I have ever edited. As I edit any page, I grow to develop a relationship with the subject of it. As such, I am not a neutral party to it. I will attempt to list the possible, more specific potential and actual conflict of interests below.
Conflict of Interest statement - BYU
I am the Coordinator of Wikipedia Initiatives at the Harold B. Lee Library. I am employed by Brigham Young University (BYU) to improve Wikipedia. I'll do my best to maintain an neutral POV, but there's no way to eradicate unconscious bias. Please contact me via my talk page if you'd like to make my unconscious bias conscious. My compensation is hourly and not contingent on any particular contribution. However, curators and other librarians sometimes request that I work on certain pages. You can find most, if not all, of the pages we have worked on under Category:Harold_B._Lee_Library-related_articles.
Conflict of Interest Statement - AML
I am currently on the board for the Association for Mormon Letters (AML), a volunteer organization that promotes Mormon literature. I believe there is an overlap of interests between AML, the BYU Library, and Wikipedia in supplying accurate information about Mormon authors to the public. My students have worked on the AML Wikipedia page and the Wikipedia page for AML's periodical, Irreantum. The BYU Library and our special collections contain the papers of past AML presidents and we have the old AML annuals on our stacks. I created a page for Melissa Leilani Larson before I was a member of the board. I have been on four judging panels for the AML awards, and I have not created pages for books that won awards that I was a judge for.
I started a Discord group for members of the Association for Mormon Letters to share information and discuss Mormon criticism. I created a channel for discussion of my Wikipedia work there because I wanted feedback from other interested editors and I often had a hard time getting feedback on my edits on individual talk pages. I never asked members of our Discord to comment or vote a certain way on any page. I have used it to ask for help with research, for opinions on administrative things, and to vent about frustrations about my work.
Conflict of Interest Statement - Member of the LDS Church and the Book of Mormon
I am a member of the LDS Church. As an active member, I donate 10% of my income to the church. I attend services on Sundays. I personally believe that the Book of Mormon is sacred writ. I do not believe that the question of whether or not the book is an archeological document is important to its spiritual meaning in my life.
Conflict of Interest Statement - Relief Society
I am a member of the women's organization for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which is called the Relief Society.
Conflict of Interest Statement - Graduate student at Brigham Young University studying Mormon literature
I am currently a graduate student at Brigham Young University. I am writing my thesis on Mormon literature. My thesis committee consists of Michael Austin, Christopher Blythe, and Matthew Wickman. Christopher Blythe is a past editor of the Journal of Mormon History. However, he was not the editor who coordinated the peer reviews of the article on the Relief Society literary curriculum that I recently published with Michael Austin. Neither was he the peer review coordinator for the upcoming article I am publishing on the Mormon Esperanto Society.
I have recently submitted a chapter on Nephi Anderson's novella "Beyond Arsareth" to a collection that Sarah Reed and Scott Hales are editing. Before I decided to contribute a chapter, I improved the bibliography section on the Nephi Anderson Wikipedia page as part of my work to help other people who might want to study Anderson's works, which were often published periodically and can be a pain to track down. Many of the periodicals his work appears in have been digitized by the BYU Library. In the process of editing, I used and improved the research resources on Nephi Anderson that Scott and Sarah are developing. Scott Hales currently works at the Church History Library and his dissertation was on Mormon literature. Sarah is a professor here at BYU.
Michael Austin has published a lot on Mormon studies in a professional capacity. We have been using his recent Testimony of Two Nations as one of the sources for literary criticism of the Book of Mormon. He is on the board of Dialogue. He was a co-founder of BCC Press, and was its publication editor until late 2023. We are presenting on Mormon hymnody at the Mormon History Association conference in a panel we put together on the topic with another employee of the BYU library.
In fall 2023, I attended the Book of Mormon Association conference in a work capacity. One of the organizers, Kim Matheson, is an acquaintance of mine outside of my work. I brought two of my students with me to this conference as part of their job, where we met in-person many of the authors whose work we have been citing in our improvements to Book of Mormon pages. These authors included John Thomas, Robert Rees, Elizabeth Fenton, Jared Hickman, Joseph Spencer, Rosalynde Welch, and many others.
When I wrote the page for Steve L. Peck and his bibliography at the request of our 21st-century manuscripts curator for my work, I was a fan of his work. I have since become Steve Peck's friend, and we are planning to present on Mormon aesthetics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
P-Makoto and I have attended several of the same academic conferences related to Mormon studies, including the Mormon History Association conference in 2022, the Book of Mormon Association conference in fall 2023, and we will be both attending the Mormon History Association conference in 2024. We are friends.
Conflict of Interest Statement - The ARCH-HIVE
I am a current patron of the ARCH-HIVE on Patreon. I participate in this community of Mormon artists. Their shows have featured work by artists whose pages I have worked on for work, for example, Matt Page (artist), whose page I created when our 21st-century curator requested that I work on his page after acquiring some of his personal papers. I created a Wikipedia page for the ARCH-HIVE on my personal time with my personal account to avoid COI as a paid editor, even though their zines have been acquired by our special collections and there was a clear work justification for it.
My students
I employ BYU students who edit Wikipedia under my supervision. My current students are:
Former student workers
- RGreen (BYU)
- Salem(BYU)
- Cstickel(byu)
- Bassknight(byu)
- Skyes(BYU)
- Amgisseman(BYU)
- Alexislynn(BYU)
- Phelps (BYU)
- Katelyn Sun (BYU)
- JAGrace (BYU)
- Gandhi (BYU)
- Malexander (BYU)
- October(BYU)
- Cjstirlbyu
- NatalieEmma.BYU
Pages I've worked on
Mormon women
Lucinda Lee Dalton - early Mormon feminist and frequent writer in The Exponent- Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez - first woman baptized in the LDS Church in Mexico
- Alice Louise Reynolds - first woman professor at BYU
- Maurine Whipple - author of the Mormon epic The Giant Joshua (1941)
- Nellie Gubler - local historian in southern Utah
- Celestia Taylor - early BYU professor in English and writer for Relief Society magazine
- Claudia Lauper Bushman - Mormon historian who helped found Exponent II
- Sandra Tayler - author and editor
- Belle S. Spafford (nominated) - 9th Relief Society president
- Traci Hunter Abramson - popular writer of spy novels
- Cynthia B. Lee - CS professor at Stanford
- Wendy Watson Nelson - former professor of Marriage and Family Therapy; wife of LDS President Russel M. Nelson
- Julia Mavimbela - teacher and early convert in South Africa
- Phyllis Barber - author and autobiographer
Mormon history
- Newel K. Whitney
- Priddy Meeks (nominated)
- Leonard Arrington
- Roger P. Minert
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ireland
- Black people and Mormonism
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa
- Mormon studies
- Joseph Forbes (educator)
- Hugh Nibley
- Wilford Woodruff
- Roadometer (odometer)
- William Clayton (Mormon)
- The Latter-Day Saints' Emigrants' Guide
- Green Flake
Mormon arts
- Songs and Flowers of the Wasatch
- Nothing Very Important and Other Stories
- Béla Petsco
- Melissa Leilani Larson
- Glen Nelson
- Brian Kershisnik
- Annie Poon
- List of Mormon cartoonists
- Portrayal of Mormons in comics
- Dendō
- Matt Page (artist)
- Charles Roscoe Savage
- Mormon folklore
- William A. Wilson (folklorist)
- Mormon fiction
- Maurine Whipple
- Vardis Fisher
- The Giant Joshua
- Crawford Gates
- Orson Scott Card
- Mormon foodways
- Steven L. Peck bibliography
BYU history
- Vasco M. Tanner
- Howard S. McDonald
- Merrill Bradshaw
- Kevin J Worthen
- Steven L. Peck
- Seventh East Press
Local bands
Library and other special collections-related pages
Q: Hey Rachel, isn't working on the Harold B. Lee Library's page a conflict of interest, since you work there?
A: Yes, I did have a conflict of interest! I wasn't going to edit the page, but a previous copyvio put the page out of commission. I completely rewrote it so a page would exist. My edit history is available for anyone to examine. Other editors looked over the page. COI editing is strongly discouraged but allowed when the editing is within Wikipedia's content guidelines. I'm happy to talk about it more if you have questions.
- Kelmscott Press
- Harold B. Lee Library
- Education in Zion Gallery
- Primrose International Viola Archive
- David Dalton (violist)
- Mildred Dilling
- Carlos Salzedo
- Merian C. Cooper
- Max Steiner filmography
- Betty Paoli (nominated)
- Simon de Colines
- Zenna Henderson
- May Mann
- Didymus the Blind
- Topaz War Relocation Center
- Ebensee concentration camp
- Charity bazaar
- Lloyd Alexander