User talk:FutureMuseumSW

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Username and conflict of interest concern

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen (FutureMuseumSW) seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this:

1. It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization or adding links to its website.
2. Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. The article in question is Dumfries Museum. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 17:14, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Fred, thanks for your useful input regarding my acxount. I'm just a photographer for my local council and take images of objects - I have no curatorial input etc with the Future Museum project, so I don't believe there is any professional interest. I've registered the account solely to keep track of the images I created for the site.

FutureMuseumSW (talk) 17:29, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

(Copied from User talk:C.Fred)

There are now a number of problems with what you're doing:

First is your username. It implies that you do have a connection with or are editing on behalf of the museum. As such, it violates the username policy. Please immediately request a change of username; otherwise, your account will be blocked for the username violation only.

Next, the images you've added to the article. The images are exact copies of ones found at the museum's website. There are three possible reasons I see for this, in order from least likely to most likely:

1. You have taken pictures yourself that, due to the lighting conditions in the museum, have resulted in images substantially identical to those on the museum's website.
2. You took the pictures in the course of your duties as a photographer for the local council—in which case the council holds copyright to the images, and someone from the council will need to provide documentation to Wikimedia Commons that they have released the images under the Creative Commons license.
3. You took the pictures as an independent photographer and licensed them to the museum—in which case you will need to provide documentation to Wikimedia Commons that you did retain rights to resell/reuse the images after you sold/gave them to the museum and that you have licensed the images freely.
4. You copied the pictures from the museum's website and uploaded them in violation of the museum's and/or council's copyright.

Finally, note that in scenario 2 or 3 above, you do have a conflict of interest with the museum, although it's a mild one in the case of #3. —C.Fred (talk) 17:51, 10 February 2012 (UTC)