User talk:Silkwood

Managing a conflict of interest

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

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Are you employed by or connected to the Traditional Tune Archive? Your only edits have been to create and edit that article and to add links to tunearch.org to other articles. Schazjmd (talk) 15:06, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @Schazjmd it is sad to see how every initiative is considered dishonest in principle.

The Traditional Tune Archive has existed, in various forms, since the nineties thanks to the work of Andrew Kuntz first and Valerio Pelliccioni then.

From the beginning, the TTA has relied only on its own resources and its own work to exist: no advertising, no profiling of users.

After reading your (Wikipedia) reprimand for this supposed conflict of interest (which in all legislation across the globe, except Wikipedia, arises only in the face of economic interest) I wondered how to share with Wikipedia readers and contributors that in the Dancing Master by Henry Playford there is a passage dedicated to the character mentioned here: Mary Moll Frith.

I deleted my contribution, and with it my COI, and with it also the knowledge.

Best Wishes

Valerio

PS: if, for once, you want to not only be a Bureaucrat but share a bit of knowledge, insert the link to Yellow Stocking. You are certainly above any suspicion. Silkwood (talk) 11:26, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The template wasn't a reprimand, merely notifying you of a Wikipedia guideline. If you say that you don't have a conflict of interest with the Traditional Tune Archive, that's fine. If you do have a COI, the template explains how to manage it while editing articles. Schazjmd (talk) 14:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]