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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 23:22, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

username issue

Your username is the name of an art gallery in Laguna.

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "BC.Space", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 03:55, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi BC.Space - besides the issues with your username, you have a load of recent edits to Sawdust Art Festival that appear promotional. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some questions for you below.

Hello, BC.Space. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Comments/questions

Wikipedia is a reference that the public relies on. Managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it.

Wikipedia highly values contributions by subject matter experts; at the same time, experts have some special challenges when they first start editing here. Please see the essay with advice for experts, WP:EXPERTS, which discusses both sides of that coin.

One of the challenges is related to conflicts of interest (COI). COI has some interesting twists here in Wikipedia, since we allow editors to be anonymous here, and editors directly publish their edits, with no mediation (no publisher, no peer review - just direct publication) Please do read WP:COI, especially the section on Writing about yourself and your work.

COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review.

Disclosure first: you have already kind of disclosed your relationship to BC Space in your username. You also appear to have a relationship with the Sawdust Art Festival. To make your disclosures complete, we need two things. The first is to make the disclosure on your User page, (here: User:BC.Space). While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by out WP:OUTING policy), you should disclose the relationship (like: "I work for the BC Space gallery and am affiliated with the Sawdust Art Festival.") Second, you should make sure that you disclose your COI on the Talk pages of articles you edit, where the COI is present. An easy way to do this, is to simply include a link to the COI disclosure on your User page in your signature, which you can customize in the preferences for your account. See User:Alexbrn for an example of a disclosure, and his signature on his Talk page for an example of what it looks like. We can also handle this by using the "Connected contributor" tag in the headers of the talk page. The third alternative is to simply note your COI when you make comments on Talk pages. In any case, would you please add the disclosure to your User page?

Peer review step. What we ask editors with a COI to do, is offer suggestions on the Talk page for others to review instead of directly editing the article. Going forward, please do not directly edit articles where you have a COI, but rather offer suggestions at the article's Talk page. You can do that easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. There is a section at the bottom of the mustard-colored box at the top of the Talk page - there is a link at "click here" in that section. If you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request. Would you please do that going forward?

Please let me know if you are willing to do those things. I am happy to talk, if you have any questions or want to discuss anything, you can write them below. I will see them, as I am "watching" this page. Best regards, Jytdog (talk) 04:11, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for replying below, that you are affiliated with the gallery. Would you please add a disclosure of that to your userpage, here: User:BC.Space. Something like, "I work for BC Space, a gallery in Laguna, California." or something like that. Would you please do that? After you do, there is more to discuss about conflict of interest in Wikipedia, but one thing at a time. I don't want to overwhelm you. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 15:57, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

thanks for making the disclosure on your user page. that was superhelpful. So OK. Picking up the thing that brought me here - the festival article. below, you wrote that you have no affiliation with it. Does the Gallery benefit from the festival and its visibility? (i have no idea, i am relying on your goodwill here, and a common sense approach - do you benefit from that article in any way? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 20:05, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Change Username

Thank you for your comments. Yes I have an affiliation with BC Space, and will change my username to MPC235.

Also, I have no affiliation with the Sawdust Art Festival.

BC.Space 15:00, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

the link to change your username is in the section above, about username. search for "username change" and click on the link there.

Affiliation with BC Space

I own BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

BC.Space 16:20, 29 May, 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for this, but it needs to go on your "User page" - here User:MPC235. This right here, is your "User talk page". The "user page" is a place that only you can edit - it is about what you are up to, here in WP and COI disclosures. this page, your "User talk page" is where people can come and talk to you - other people can and do write here. (there are policies/guidelines on how to use both of them, but that is the general idea) Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 17:26, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Jytdog wrote: "Does the Gallery benefit from the festival and its visibility? (i have no idea, i am relying on your goodwill here, and a common sense approach - do you benefit from that article in any way? "

The answer is that neither BC Space Gallery nor I benefit in any way from the Sawdust Art Festival article. The artworks and crafts at the Festival are entirely different in media, style and execution from the art and photography on view at BC Space Gallery; the latter exhibits primarily socially activist art. The primary relationship is that we are in the same city and that we are loosely associated with the arts. MPC235 00:21, 30 May 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.249.44 (talk)