On 28 September 2015 at 13:21, Daria Cybulska <
daria.cybulska(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
<glam(a)wikimedia.org.uk>Dear GLAM UK,
I am a member of staff in the Library at the University of Sheffield. The
National Fairground Archive is based within the Library and we are
interested in using our subject knowledge and collections to contribute to
Wikipedia articles relating to this area. We understand the policy about
not contributing original research and would not be doing this.
I have looked at your pages on Wikipedia and have seen the information
about Wikipedia projects and Wikimedians in residence and I want to ask: is
it a requirement that we be part of a project with a pre-existing
Wikimedian or is it ok for members of staff here to become editors and make
contributions independently? Would this be seen as a conflict of interest?
We would, of course, be using individual accounts and obeying the
guidelines for editors. Our aim in contributing would be to make
information about this area more available to the public by adding to
articles and to provide links (in citations) to our collections so that the
general public can further benefit from them.
I am interested to hear whether this kind of activity would be acceptable
to the Wikipedia community and as such I look forward to your response.
Best wishes,
Rosa
Sadler
Really depends on exactly what is planned. While their objectives closely
enough align with ours that there shouldn't be a conflict linkspaming by
GLAMS has been a problem in the past.
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geni