User talk:Inrodriguez

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Inrodriguez. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Cabot's Pueblo Museum, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. It appears that you previously edited the article when not logged in to an account, and that you are attempting to reinstate these changes in spite of my message at User talk:66.74.84.107. Verbcatcher (talk) 03:05, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Reply to email

Hi, thanks for your email in which you ask how to correct errors in the Cabot's Pueblo Museum article. The EmailUser facility is usually only used for discussing confidential topics, so I am replying on your user talk page.

We want Wikipedia to be accurate, but the emphasis in Wikipedia guidelines is that all content should be verifiable, see Wikipedia:Verifiability. The main problems with your edits were:

• You changed facts which had sources without adding a new source to verify your new content. For example, "24 years of construction" is sourced to Frank Bogert's book.
• You removed information that had a source, without giving an explanation. The sentence about Portia Fearis is sourced to Karen Minckler's book. You may have deleted it on the basis that it is inaccurate or private, but you should explain your reasons in the edit summary or in the article's talk page. The information does not appear to meet the threshold in WP:BLPPRIVACY. However, I think it does fall under the WP:NOTPUBLICFIGURE policy and it is of little relevance to the museum, so I support its deletion.

Wikipedia editors are concerned about conflicts of interest. We often see attempts to introduce promotional content or advertising, and 'knocking copy' or vandalism from opponents of the subject of an article.

As well as the links in the notice above, I suggest you look at Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide.

As you have a conflict of interest you are allowed to make minor 'uncontroversial' edits to the article, see WP:COIADVICE, but it is simpler to make no such edits. You should propose any changes on the article's talk page (Talk:Cabot's Pueblo Museum). This could be a description of what should be changed, or a draft of proposed new text. However, your proposals are unlikely to be acted on unless you provide reliable sources to back them up.

Reliable sources are discussed in Wikipedia:Reliable sources. The best sources here might be an article in a major newspaper (not a supermarket tabloid), a book published by a mainstream publisher or something published by a government agency or a university. Less reliable sources would include the museum's website and books published by the museum, but in my view these are acceptable here. Editors should reject any proposed changes that are contradicted by a more reliable source.

If you propose changes on the article's talk page then I or another editor will assess them and implement them if they are judged to be improvements. However, the editor has to personally check the sources that you cite, which in practice means that they have to be available online. While printed books are generally acceptable as sources, they are difficult to check unless they are available online.

It is a good idea to mark your proposals with {{request edit}}, to highlight them as a specific requests.

If you have any follow-up questions on how to do things then please add them here. Questions about an article should be on the article's talk page. And feel free to ask for help on my user talk page (User talk:Verbcatcher).

Regards, Verbcatcher (talk) 20:15, 7 June 2019 (UTC)