User talk:Treadwellpress
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[edit]Hello, Treadwellpress, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft:Chris McCaw, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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- Congratulations on what's now an article. Robertsky wonders above if you might have some conflict of interest. Do you have any? Just say yes or no. (Incidentally, I have no reason to think that you do have any.) -- Hoary (talk) 07:32, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- Hoary, I posted this cuz Google said so. (^ω~) – robertsky (talk) 07:36, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello! Thank you both SO much for the help. In reading the links provided, I think I have a partial conflict of interest in that I do know Chris McCaw personally but I don't "work for, or represent, the subject..." through any professional affiliation. I welcome feedback on what next steps I may need to take regarding this. Appreciate the feedback regarding username. Treadwellpress is a personal username, not a company or a group, but I will follow the info to change it in Wikipedia to something clearly individual. Thank you again! Treadwellpress (talk) 15:51, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
- Hi there! Well, friendships are also a source of potential COI. Points 2 to 3 of WP:COIEDIT is relevant for you:
you are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly
andyou may propose changes on talk pages (by using the {{request edit}} template), or by posting a note at the COI noticeboard, so that they can be peer reviewed
. I have helped to disclose this on Talk:Chris McCaw. Kudos for going through AfC process for this article, for at the very least, you know that this article stands a good chance of surviving a deletion discussion. As for the COI banner on the article itself, another interested editor may pass by to check if the article needs further tweaks to present it from a neutral point of view and edit, then remove the banner. – robertsky (talk) 17:06, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you – robertsky, that makes sense. I will refrain from further direct editing! Perhaps Hoary may be willing to offer a further edit for neutrality as needed, if that's appropriate to ask.
- I didn't think that such an edit was needed, and have now removed the COI template. (I've also made other, minor, neutrality-irrelevant edits.) That's not to say that there are no problems. First, about half of this is direct quotation; a higher percentage should be in your/our words. Secondly, I find the order in which his work is described somewhat confusing. Thirdly, a number of the "public collections" are unreferenced. And fourthly, there's not much about any of the projects/series other than Sunburn. (When I say this, I'm not knocking your work: many articles start off a lot feebler than this, and improve over time. I expect that this will improve too.) McCaw really does seem to be something of a favorite among some circles of people who write things up on the interwebs, so it shouldn't be hard to find additional material. If you can find it, please summarize it and post it on the article's talk page Talk:Chris McCaw. If you then wait a week but nobody seems to have noticed, mention this on one or more among User talk:Robertsky, User talk:Lopifalko, User talk:Hoary, or of course the talk page of some other "user" [ominous term!]. As for the unreferenced collections, please add a reference to each, over the next couple of weeks. (I mean, you're free to do this directly.) If this seems difficult, feel free to remove each item; of course, when a reference for one of them turns up later, you can suggest on the talk page that the (now referenced) item should be readded. Meanwhile, nothing much links to "Chris McCaw"; you're free to add links to it, where these links would be helpful. -- Hoary (talk) 22:24, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you so much Hoary for breaking down a daunting process for the uninitiated and making it manageable. I will work on where you suggest in the ways you suggest and yes, will try to run down those collections citations. It's amazing how easy some museums' collections are to search online and how opaque others' are!Treadwellpress (talk) 00:19, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- I completely agree with you on the variability of access to museum collections. What I've found most worrisome is the (luckily rare) combination of (A) a clear claim on a different, seemingly authoritative website that such-and-such works are at such-and-such a museum, (B) that museum's bold claim that all its possessions are listed, (C) non-appearance of any such work when searched for. (Over the years I've sadly concluded that much of what seems to be authoritative actually is not.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:29, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Chris McCaw has been accepted
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Hoary (talk) 07:27, 18 August 2021 (UTC)