Karlene20

October 2022

If you are connected to someone or something you have written about (a few examples are writing about yourself, your business, your band, a member of your family, your client) then you should be aware that Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline discourages you from writing about that subject. The main reason for that is that experience over the years indicates that editors with such a connection to a subject they are writing about are likely to find it very difficult, or even impossible, to stand back from their writing and see how it will look from the detached perspective of an outsider, so that they are likely to write in ways that look promotional to others, even if they sincerely think they are writing in a neutral way. Also, if your editing forms all or part of work for which you are paid, whether as an employee, as a contractor, or in any other capacity, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require you to state who is paying you, and what your connection to them is. (To avoid the possibility of a surprisingly common misunderstanding, editing is part of paid work if it is done as part of normal employment or as part of a work to a contract, whether or not a specific payment earmarked for editing Wikipedia is made.)JBW (talk) 21:12, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

The subject of the page contacted me directly as she is in my field and I contribute to Wikipedia. I participated in a grant a couple of years ago that created pages for archivists (the person creating the pages indicated at the time that she was paid via a grant to do this work). The subject of this page has found information to be incorrect and wants to remove the content so she can update with correct content. Karlene20 (talk) 18:03, 11 October 2022 (UTC)