WallyBG7767

November 2018

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

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This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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WallyBG7767 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I have corresponded with Wiki Arbitrator Opabinia Regalis on the unfortunate blockage. My husband and I have been the owners of Walter Burley Griffin's Fishwick house for over 40 years. It is a private dwelling which is heritage listed at federal, state & local levels and by all authoritative professional and heritage bodies in Australia. We do not paricipate in any commercial activities whatsoever concerning the house and regularly open it to heritage and achitectural tour groups without charge. I was dismayed at the poor quality of the Wiki entry on our house which had recently been created. It was almost entirely "lifted" from the NSW Heritage Office's formal report on the house's listing and had many factual and typographical errors. We have contributed to many books, articles and documentaries featuring the building as well as producing the house's own not-for-profit, non commercial website, www.fishwickhouse.org. As a Wiki novice, I attempted to correct the errors and to add many more up-to-date reference materials, which would be of benefit to students and researchers. This appears to have triggered the blockage.

Accept reason:

With the caveat that you will follow 331dot's advice below, I am willing to unblock your account. Please read through the Conflict of Interest page (linked below) and do not edit Fishwick House directly. Primefac (talk) 00:31, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

I have renamed your account from Fishwickhouse to this name. Someone else will review your request, but I suspect that they will tell you that you will need to review conflict of interest and agree to only make edit requests on the article's talk page instead of editing the article directly. 331dot (talk) 00:37, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Additional reading suggested by Fishwick house owners.

I have read Wiki’s Conflict of Interest page and wholly concur with its intent. I understand that my part-ownership of Griffin’s Fishwick house puts me in a COI position with regard to any editing of its Wiki page. However, given that I have lived in the house for 45 years, helped plan and supervise three major restorations, which were aided by four separate grants from both the Australian federal and NSW state governments, and have for some 20 years been an active member of the Walter Burley Griffin Society (of which my husband is a past-president), I hope you would agree that I am well-qualified to contribute to improving the current Wiki entry which is deficient in a number of aspects, discussed below. I am proposing a series of three edits, for which I now seek your approval in principle, plus the addition of some images. With your concurrence the three edits would be entered onto this page at about two-monthly intervals, allowing me sufficient time to gather high-quality material for you or another editor to upload. All such material will be from objective sources with appropriate documentation and references.

The proposed changes are:

Edit I Reduce its length. Every paragraph in the current entry has been “lifted” word-for- word off the formal listing report prepared by the NSW Heritage Office, yet this entire report is freely available on the internet. My proposal is to select just two or three concise and informative paragraphs to remain in the entry, with the other material to be removed but accessible through links to the HO site.

Edit II Add a section on the prominence & significance of the house. Authoritative sources are on record stating the house to be of international significance, one of the most celebrated early 20th century houses in Australia and amongst Griffin’s most important buildings. Yet the current entry is restricted to its Heritage qualities. My proposal is to introduce a new section comprising explicit references to the importance of the house from books, academic articles, documentaries and reports from professional architectural bodies.

Edit III Increase the number and breadth of its sources. Almost all the article’s references, bibliography entries and attributions are from the 2006 NSW Heritage Office report. Many have little relevance. Since its mid 1990s restoration the house has been prominently featured in 27 books, academic and magazine articles, radio and TV documentaries and exhibitions. Concurrently, interest in Griffin has increased markedly in both the US and Australia. Therefore a very rich amount of important additional material on both Griffin and the house exists but is not currently referenced. My proposal is to prepare a well-balanced list of sources, especially those which would be of particular interest to researchers and students. WallyBG7767 (talk) 21:55, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

You may wish to post your comments to Talk:Fishwick House and request edits to the article due to your conflict of interest. -- Longhair\^talk 22:02, 10 December 2018 (UTC)