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Hello. I noticed in this diff you say you "have personally interviewed the artist". Does this mean Siner is a friend of yours? We have specific guidelines on conflict of interest; are you familiar with WP:COI? Thanks. --- Possibly☎02:36, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hello Possibly. I was not a friend of Maggie Siner when I interviewed her and drafted the article. I had met her on a vaporetto leaving the Venice film festival, completely by chance, in september 2015, and as a member of the french Wiki Project Les Sans Pages, which was born precisely that year (2015), and focuses on women visibility in Wikipedia, I decided to write an article on her, because she was clearly a famous female artist that deserved mention. I collected some information and sources on her by myself, and I went to Venice again a couple of times to interview her, since I thought this was very important to have accurate information and obtain additional sources. In the years after the interviews we got to know each other and as it is natural to happen, we befriended each other. Her english wikipedia page has received thousands of visits and I believe she meets many criteria of notability. She is really a uniquely notable artist and I oppose the idea of deletion.Galileosdaughter (talk) 02:59, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi. That was a question for Morningbastet; did you lose your password and start the new account Galileosdaughter? Since you have edited the article as recently as late August, and you are, as you say, a friend of the subject, you need to declare this per the COI guideline, and to use the talk page to make edit requests, rather than editing her article directly. Do you have other similar close relationships with the people you have written about? some of the articles you have created seem to have a similar tone of familiarity. --- Possibly☎04:28, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi, yes there was a mixup of accounts and logins, and I will follow your indication re: COI and future edits, and added COI info on talk page. No, I am not friend of other people I wrote about (past and present). Re : importance of interviews, I came to realize that precision and reliability of Wiki articles re:info that is difficult/impossible to source without breaching personal privacy laws (birthdate, education, and other) requires direct interview either of the person (if alive and available) or of relatives/friends of the person. I am concerned about reliability of Wiki articles (history rewritten, or even worse, hidden) and I am very strict about proof and objectivity and sources. I also realize that some sources, even articles by historians with good reputation, are referring to secondary sources that go back to unsubstantiated articles based on primary sources, making it hard to re-establish objective and factual "truth".Morningbastet (talk) 05:04, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi possibly, I am sorry I was not aware of this from now on I will only use sources and conduct no interviewMorningbastet (talk) 05:45, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
Hello Possibly, to be more precise: I have always used and am always using reliable independent secondary and tertiary sources and reference them in order to document all the articles I have written and I am editing, about Maggie Siner and anybody else. I read all the secondary and tertiary sources I can find, and then I write the article and cite the sources. As I said, I was not at all friend of Maggie Siner when I wrote the article, so there was no COI. Other contributors have made edits, and the last minor edits are not of great importance. Several independent people have written substantive texts about Maggie Siner, and they are cited. I will request edits for further improvement of the article, if you find there are not sufficient sources. It would be useful to understand which one of the sources you do not estimate are sufficiently deep. Thanks for your help to improve the articleMorningbastet (talk) 07:33, 18 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi there I am Nattes à chat founder of les sans pagEs and Morningbastet was a student at our first workshops at the university of Geneva. I can attest that she does not do paid contributions, even if her bold nature makes her very creative with rules :). She does edit when her professional responsibilities allow her to, in serveral languages and therefore I think we need to suppose WP:FAITH here. She became friend with the artist after writing the article (these things happen for example one asks a photo to an artist and then is in contact with the person...). She did mention that she had problems in connecting because she had lost her pass word, and we did tell her that she needered ed to create another account if she had not registered her email. That may be the cause of this imbroglio.
She is a honnest person and does not have any hidden agenda or activity. She is just bold and creative with rules. I have told her to indicate on both her user page that she has a suckpuppet account and the reason why. @Rosiestep: could you please look into this ? Warm regards. Nattes à chat (talk) 09:23, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Rosiestep: do you think that I can contribute to the discussion on the deletion of the Maggie Siner article? I am sorry if I created confusion because I forgot my password and created another account. I do wish to abide by the rules, but they are very complicated and it's difficult to learn them all in a short time. With your help, thanks. My 2 linked accounts (Galileosdaughter and Morningbastet), were not created in bad faith. I would like, in fact, to block or deactivate the Galileosdaughter account? Can somebody do it for me ? (I don't know how to do it). I have an important job that keeps me busy, and I have made a few contributions in the context of LesSansPages, just out of passion for women's history and visibility. I especially would like to stress that I am not a paid contributor, and that I have taken care in all my contributions to emphasise precision of information and sources.Morningbastet (talk) 09:46, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Morningbastet:. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia!
Regarding Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. In the case of the Maggie Siner article, you know the detailed history of when you met her, what the circumstances were, when you took the photo or created the article or improved the article, or became friends. Other people don't know these facts unless you disclose them on the article (biography) talkpage. Note, meeting someone and/or taking someone's photo doesn't constitute a conflict of interest. Interviewing them does constitute conflict of interest.
Regarding paid editors: Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure. If you are not a paid editor, and someone asks if you are one, make a statement on your userpage... something like, "I am not now and have never been a paid editor". If you are asked about paid editing for a specific article, then put a similar statement on the article's talkpage.
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If you have any further questions regarding women's biographies, please consider asking here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red. This is the English Wikipedia version of Les Sans Pages and it is monitored by friendly, supportive editors available 24 hours/day. Lastly, remember, we were all new at one time so don't worry about that. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:41, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
I'll answer once and not twice. Morningbastet, please drop this. Don't waste time sending me an emails as you did, don't waste time rounding up your editor friends. The sole issue here was that you had created and edited the Siner article without declaring your COI. Interviewing a subject, or knowing the subject, is a COI. Continuing over the years to maintain the article without letting anyone know you had a COI is not correct. These issues are now solved as you are declared and using talk page requests. Regarding the notability of Siner, that is being discussed at the AfD. Thanks. --- Possibly☎10:00, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Possibly, I wasted time because you did not answer my kind messages, and you immediately archived my kind request to you to take note of the additional sources I had found, and possibly insert the text yourself (too much to ask probably). I feel a sense of disrespect from your part. I am sorry if I am not a great expert, don't know all the rules and make plenty of mistakes, but I have a job that takes most of my time, and I spend little time on Wikipedia. Also, I feel that my message has not gotten through to you yet that I created the article at a time when I was NOT friend with the artist, I just became aware of her existence by chance, I got a leaflet and was aware of a show, did not know her at all, and wrote the article. AFTERWARDS, only after several years, we became friends, and there are very few minor edits done after that time. I said this already and it's too bad I have to repeat it, since saying, as you keep doing, that I wrote the article while I had a COI is a misrepresentation of what really happened, and it's not right. I am making further research on museum exhibit catalogues, and I will make additional Request Edits, in order to allow expert editors as yourself to come to a consensus, without bias, objective and balanced. I asked other Editors to help, in good faith, because instead of answering my messages you just archived them and ignored them. I think an important pillar of Wikipedia is to treat people with dignity and respect, instead of curtly telling them what to do, as you do above. Thank you very much for your consideration and understanding.Morningbastet (talk) 10:34, 20 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Possibly: she is not rounding up editor friends, she called me for help because she did not know what to do and I was her wikipedian mentor in the past. I think we should not bite newvies for not knowing all our rules here, there is a space for human mistakes. I have read the newspaper clippings sent to me, and in truth, there are references, only they are not available online. Morningbastet has apologized, she did not realize the problem, being a researcher she often works on primary sources and the difference between primary sources and secondary sources is not that obvious to grasp for a newbie. So please consider that there are sources, centered ones, I have named a few on the deletion request. I think Monringbastet is aware now of the "extreme gravity" of making that type of mistake
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