User talk:Barsongrobe
Hello, Barsongrobe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like this place and decide to stay.
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for placing a "paid conflict of interest" disclosure on your user page. Your contributions are appreciated and it's great to know about the American West collection of photos at the Boston Public Library as I share your interest in the American West and with historical photographs.
However, I noticed that you are adding captions to images you have placed in articles that promote your employer. Please read thru our policies and guidelines regarding COI editors here WP:COI, and pay special attention to this section: WP:PAY. If our readers want to know where an image came from or who shot the photo, they can click on the image description page where they can read all of the extended information and metadata.
I removed this information on Mammoth Hot Springs but there are many other pages where you have added promotional COI content which is discouraged. Could you please consider removing that part of the image captions?
Nice to meet you here and hope you have a happy holiday season. Netherzone (talk) 17:44, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
- @Netherzone: The editor is a library worked who wrote provenance information for a photo from the 1890s. Referring to that as "promotional COI content" is very extreme reading of the policy you are citing, not supported by text, none of which addresses this type of edit. I understand if you have a stylistic issue with including the name of the repository from which a historical photo comes—which I don't personally see as any more controversial than including the publisher in a book citation—but please approach the issue as a stylistic one rather than throwing around acronyms. I do not personally see how your edit to remove this information has improved the article at all, and your suggestion that they can click on the image to see image metadata is not an argument that has any bearing on what should and shouldn't be included on Wikipedia; everything on Wikipedia is supposed to be able to be found elsewhere. Dominic·t 20:39, 19 December 2023 (UTC)