Talk:John Wynne (sound artist)

COI, nationality

Someone claiming t be the subject contacted me on my talk page.

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Hello and thank you for your work on the entry for my work as an artist. Just yesterday someone alerted me to the fact that I now have a page on Wikipedia, and I am very pleased to have finally made it! I'm inexperienced with Wikipedia and not very familiar with the etiquette, so forgive me if I'm going about this all wrong. As far as I can tell, someone made an entry back in 2020 which was rejected, and you then picked up the ball and ran with it to get the page up, which I gather from your info is something you regularly do. I note that you prioritise women artists in your searches, which is great. I made two simple factual corrections myself (I have dual nationality, and the year of my Berlin show was incorrect), but there is a slightly more complex issue which I assume it would be unethical for me to change, so I'm wondering if you could correct when you have time. If you don't have the time or the inclination, don't worry, I'll try to get someone else to do it. In the penultimate paragraph, there is conflation between two projects I did with transplant patients. Both were collaborations with (now deceased) photographer Tim Wainwright... Transplant was the first project, done in 2008-9, after a year-long residency in the heart and lung transplant centre at Harefield Hospital near London. This resulted in an installation, book, radio piece, and various other outputs detailed here: http://www.sensitivebrigade.com/Transplant.htm Transplant and Life was a separate project, done in 2016-17, after a residency with abdominal (liver, kidney, pancreas) transplant patients at the Royal Free Hospital in London. (We also revisited some of the heart and lung transplant recipients from the first project as part of T&L.) The main output from this was the exhibition at the Hunterian Museum, and it is that exhibition that the Lancet review is talking about: http://www.sensitivebrigade.com/Transplant_and_Life.htm After Tim died in 2018, I made a 90 minute video installation from our visual and sonic materials from this project for Science Gallery London, in 2019. http://www.sensitivebrigade.com/Birds.htm And finally - again no problem if you don't have the time or inclination or if adding to an article is not something the subject can or should request - the article mentions two projects with endangered languages but only describes one, Hearing Voices. The other one was with speakers of one of Canada's endangered indigenous languages, and it showed twice at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver as well as at the Surrey Art Gallery and the 'Ksan cultural centre, close to the Kispiox reserve in Gitxsan territory. http://www.sensitivebrigade.com/Anspayaxw.htm Thanks again, and apologies if I'm not conforming to the proper etiquette! Sensitive Brigade (talk) 10:53, 20 October 2021 (UTC) Hello. Please use the Wikipedia:Edit requests process to request changes to a page for which you have a conflict of interest. --- Possibly ☎ 12:12, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

They say Wynne is Canadian-British nationality, and changed the article to that effect, but did not provide a source. A recently as 2015 he is described as a Canadian artist and not a Canadian-British artist, so I have changed it back. My impression is that the article creator and the account that contacted me are the same person, trying to write an autobiography. --- Possibly ☎ 12:21, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Terribly sorry for falling foul of the etiquette/rules. I'm trying to come to grips with them. I was not trying to write an autobiography, rather, having been made aware that the article existed, I was simply to correct factual errors in what others have written. There may be some Canadian sites which refer to me as a Canadian artist, and some British sites which refer to me as British. In fact, I have dual citizenship and have done a lot of work in both countries. The article is correct that I am currently based in the UK. Perhaps the simplest way to prove my point is the reference in the article itself to the British Composer Award I won in 2010: the website of the awarding body is here: https://www.prsformusic.com/m-magazine/news/british-composer-awards-2/

Regarding the conflation of two projects separated by about 10 years in one of the paragraphs of the article, should I request changes here or start a new talk page item? Sensitive Brigade (talk) 12:57, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

@Sensitive Brigade: Hello. The first thing you should probably do is contact WP:OTRS to prove your identity. I am pretty sure you are John Wynne, but because Wikipedia is anonymous, anyone can claim to be John Wynne. Second, provide a source that says explicitly that you are British-Canadian. The British music awards isn't enough, as it requires us to imply that you are British. Third, for the changes you want on the conflated project, make a new section below, add the {{requested edit}} template and describe the change exactly: the way the text is now, and what you want it changed to. Thanks. --- Possibly ☎ 00:04, 22 October 2021 (UTC)