User talk:Thackray Museum of Medicine

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Thackray Museum of Medicine, good luck, and have fun. PamD 05:11, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

PamD 05:11, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

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The article clearly needs to be updated but this should not be done by anyone working for the museum. Please use the article's talk page to make suggestions and to provide sources for any information, preferably Reliable independent published sources. Thanks. PamD 05:10, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

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I have done what I can to update the article using the museum's website, but the most promising independent source I could find was a Museums Association article behind a paywall so that I could not read and use it - https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/reviews/2021/03/in-sickness-and-in-health-thackray-museum-of-medicine-leeds/.

If you are a member of the museum staff reading this, please consider creating an editor name for yourself ("XYZ at Thackray" would be excellent as identifying that it is just one person editing and also being transparent about your involvement with the museum, where "XYZ" could be your personal forename or a pseudonym to preserve your anonymity). You could then make useful comments on the article talk page, and point other editors to useful sources - articles about the museum, eg coverage in Yorkshire Post or in the Museums literature - which could be used as independent sources from which to expand the article. PamD 08:12, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]