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Good work! --Haemo 09:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

did you know

...that Mrs. William Grey was one of the founders of the Girls Day School Trust, an organisation which has recently converted its Belvedere School into a City Academy? by K8tmoon

OK? I was intrigued that the organisation is still making dramatic changes to its schools. I will need to add this fact to the article. Victuallers —Preceding comment was added at 22:43, 26 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GDST

Hallo, I've done a bit of a blitz on the article today...(and then let myself get distracted onto updating The Belvedere School into its new name, and sorting out the links to it, etc!)

The Wikipedia style seems to insist on refs being after full stop at end of sentence, so I've tweaked a few of those, and various apostrophes, and have used <ref name=xyz> to combine multiple refs to same resources. Also formatted a few refs differently.

I wonder if it's worth trying to get it rated as Good Article? Could do with a couple of pictures, I suppose - founders and/or current schools.

You've obviously done a huge amount of work on it (or is it a spinoff from an essay or dissertation for a course somewhere?), so thanks for all that. I went to a GPDST school myself, which is why I take a bit of an interest in the GDST article! PamD (talk) 11:38, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

London Meetup - Sunday May 11th

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I think it's a valid category, but Wikipedia tends to avoid "notable" in category names. Regards, Bencherlite ^Talk 07:24, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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A stupid note to thank you for the work on Archibald Sayce, very interesting and helpful. I guess we need to look for more pictures of him ? ☺ Meskalam (talk) 19:59, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello K8tmoon. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:K8tmoon. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=K8tmoon|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message.

These concerns are being raised because I have found information that leads me to think that you may have an undisclosed conflict of interest and that you may also have been paid to edit by the subject of the article. I found this information whilst I was conducting some research to help you with the article. I came to your page to see if you have any disclosed conflicts of interest, but couldn't find any disclosures. Please could you also confirm whether or not you have any conflicts of interests in the other articles which you list on your user page as created or significantly edited? --ArchivesandLetters (talk) 15:47, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ArchivesandLetters, I do not receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any of my contributions to Wikipedia. K8tmoon (talk) 17:51, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ArchivesandLetters: could you also address the question of COI: are you connected in any way to the Center for Chinese Contemporary Art? Thanks.--- Possibly (talk) 22:58, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

--- Possibly Thank you for stepping in. No, I do not have any connections to the subject of this article, although, as I have declared on my user page, I do have expertise that is specifically related to migrant and diasporic communities in England since World War II amongst other topics. This interest is because I am a migrant myself, living in England. I noticed that that all of K8tmoon edits since July 2018 have either been on this article, or a BLP related to the subject of the article. The only exception is Archibald Sayce. It is also noted that prior to this date none of their edited articles had any relation to this. I started to edit this article and was trying to help find secondary sources for it, as the article relies primarily on self-published sources (see article talk page). This is when I came across information that leads me to think there may be a COI.--ArchivesandLetters (talk) 23:23, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ArchivesandLetters: My apologies, I meant to ask that question of K8tmoon! Thanks though for your answer. I will ask the question again below. --- Possibly (talk) 00:04, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. ArchivesandLetters (talk) 00:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@K8tmoon: could you also address the question of COI: are you connected in any way to the Center for Chinese Contemporary Art? Thanks.--- Possibly (talk) 00:04, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please see note below on Conflict of interest. My comment above was to address claims of paid advocacy which is the accusation featured in this section. None of my edits on the site have been on behalf of any of the organisations that I have worked for and I have not received any compensation for any of my contributions to Wikipedia. The general purposes of my edits have been to share information/sources which I have discovered while working with archival collections (as stated in my user profile). This type of work is encouraged by Wikipedia, but I haven't kept up with Wikipedia's guidelines & I was unaware that it was recommended that I should also state my interest/affiliation in my profile page. I have now updated this information.

I edited article in question in 2018 because it was written like an advertisement and very few changes had been made to the text since it was initially created. I was trying to make the page more neutral and make sure it just stated facts. I wasn't aware at the time of the guidelines for editors with a conflict of interest or I would have suggested my edits in the talk page first.

Since then I have watched kept an eye on the article, but I felt I had to respond to edits which were made by an anonymous editor on 11 April. I have stated my reasoning for making these changes on the talk page of the article. The additional edits I made after 6th May were in response to further recommendations made by ArchivesandLetters. There was no bias intended in my edits and my recent edits were statements of historical facts which I tried to keep as neutral as possible and backed-up with verifiable references. If other editors believe that the sources I used are biased they are free to make changes & add their own verifiable sources. I didn’t respond to the further comments by ArchivesandLetters as I was still working on edits following the initial recommendations and haven’t had the chance to address their further comments.

As mentioned below, comments on this page have now made me aware of the current guidance about conflict of interest. While I am affiliated with the organisation I will only interact with the article following the guidelines regarding editors with a conflict of interest.K8tmoon (talk) 20:34, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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I haven't responded to the issue of conflict of interest until now because it has taken me a few days to work through all the guidance and other guidance for editors who work in the GLAM sector. I only edit Wikipedia as a hobby and I haven’t kept up with all the changes which have been made to regulations since I joined Wikipedia. Until ArchivesandLetters mentioned it on this page I wasn’t aware of the current scope of the conflict of interest guidance. Now I have a better understanding of the guidance I have edited my user page & I will follow the conflict of interest advice. K8tmoon (talk) 20:34, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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