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Good morning,
I am the executive director of a museum that is opening in a couple of weeks, and I was alerted to the fact that there is no Wikipedia page about the museum, or the heritage site where it is located. I wanted to create a Wikipedia page for the museum. There are plenty of published sources I can use (that are not by me).
I realize this is a conflict of interest, but I'm not sure how to handle that. If a board member or an intern writes the article, it's still a conflict of interest. It seems like less of a conflict of interest for me, since I am not directly being paid to write the article, as an intern would be. I could get a friend to write it, but that feels like just as much of a conflict of interest. Will I be allowed to write this article even though I am the director of the museum? --JohnnyMort835 (talk) 15:39, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! There is guidance about this at WP:COI. You need to declare your conflict of interest on the article and on your user page, but as long as you follow WP:NPOV and have plenty of reliable sources, you should be alright. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 17:22, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! As you are a new editor, you will have to create your article through WP:AFC. However, it is unlikely that you will be able to find enough sources to establish notability for your local supermarket. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 08:40, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey man, I was reading the Bret Weinstein profile (not only this page but a
a LOT of pages over the years that I think are inaccurately portrayed). The bias on Wikipedia is, in my opinion, incredible and absurd in many cases.
Hi there! Wikipedia is user-generated, so the content that is added can sometimes match the bias of the writer. Most editors maintain WP:NPOV, however some don’t. If you see an article that you think isn’t neutral, you can edit it to make the tone more neutral. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 08:45, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi ScrabbleTiles. I’ve just been looking at Barbara Lane (costume designer) and marked it as reviewed. I noticed you’d tagged it for notability so looked at a sample of the sources. A lot of them are just lists of credits so don’t establish notabilty, but some are more than just trivial mentions. Sources 8, 10, 14 and 15 all look ok. I haven’t removed your tag, but I’ve marked the article as reviewed. (The bibliographic data in the refs isn’t always very precise, but that’s a different problem to fix!) --Northernhenge (talk) 22:56, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
10 and 14 were added after I tagged it, and 8 is considered generally unreliable. If you think the tag is not needed anymore, then feel free to remove it. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 10:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In the question, I proposed a change to the transliteration of Liatoshynsky. Realizing that most sources use this spelling (Lyatoshynsky), it's still inaccurate based on how the surviving members of his family transliterate it (including for the foundation named after him), and based on Wikipedia's own policy for transliterating Ukrainian Cyrillic.
I imagine this article doesn't get a lot of traffic based on the edit and talk history, so I was wondering at what point — if I don't hear from anyone else — I could go ahead and make those edits if I wanted to?
Hi, what all sources are considered valid for citations? I tried adding something without citation and a bot reported it as vandalism :( --Wise Coach (talk) 12:32, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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