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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Bioinfo 7. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Andrew Breeze, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. I note that you have made few if any edits to the encyclopedia which are not about AB. If you are AB or a friend or associate, please be aware that you should not be editing the article but that you may make comments on the talk page, with sources, for any suggested changes to it. PamD 12:04, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi PamD. Thank you for this. I will now abstain from making further edits on AB pages, as I am a colleague. I am not paid by AB or to edit wikis and I try to keep a neutral point of view, providing references wherever I can, and counterarguments/deficiencies. I don't edit too much on wikipedia, so I have not written many pages, but I am grateful for the work of editors like you as I use this resource often. Thank you for this and I hope this resolves the COI page issue (I might request further advice from you in the future when dealing with these matters). Bioinfo 7 (talk) 21:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi PamD. Unfortunately some of Morgain13's edits (non-COI author) on AB's page were taken out, so if you could please add I would be very grateful to make sure the page has different contributors so the COI banner can be taken off.. Also I see now the Camlann page has reduced AB content which is good as other views included! Thanks! Bioinfo 7 (talk) 21:59, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

I don't see that any more than the odd word of Morgain13's edits was removed, so am a bit baffled. But I see Dudley Miles' edits. OK I will remove the template, but please remember about COI. There are millions of other articles in Wikipedia which could benefit from your attention, as an academic - though there are particular problems academics face in adapting to the different culture here of "No original resarch" etc: Help:Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics offers some useful advice. Happy Editing!

A few Wiki editing tips:

• I've indented your two comments above because it's the convention on talk pages and makes it easier to see what's written in reply to what.
• If you want to attract another user's attention to a post, it's better to use {{Ping}} or {{U}} - I don't think I was alerted to the posts above when you copied my signature there, which I would have been if you'd used one of those (ie {{ping|PamD}} or {{U|PamD}}), as long as you also sign your post in the same edit.
• It's better not to duplicate posts on two talk pages, as the responder then has to decide which to reply to and what to do with the other copy!

There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey - and can be a fascinating time-sink. PamD 23:00, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Understood! Thank you for this @PamD: ! Bioinfo 7 (talk) 23:49, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

One of the articles I think there is a gap in is for https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestina_de_Champourc%C3%ADn, a famous Spanish female poet which has a very small page in English wikipedia compared to her contemporaries (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ayala_(novelist) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Alberti ). I think there is some bias here which needs addressing, but again I have a COI as she was institutionally related to my university.. Could be neutrally tackled by the Women in Red WikiProject? @PamD: Thanks again, Bioinfo 7 (talk) 01:04, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

I don't think there's much COI involved in a deceased poet, unless you're her publisher or a family member. I'd say go ahead and improve Ernestina de Champourcín but remember to source everything. PamD 08:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Will do! Thank you @PamD: ! I wanted to make sure. Also re final cleanup of AB page, in the reference needed section I think Morgain 13 intended reference 8 for that text, but the book the "Origins of the four branches of the Mabinogi" may also be a reference here (or the book Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: The Spatial Turn in Premodern Studies. Berlin ; Boston: de Gruyter; 2012. 935 p.). There is also a broken link in reference 6 at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/is-this-welsh-princess-the-first-british-woman-author-1282555.html. Could you help me re this? Thanks! Bioinfo 7 (talk) 19:08, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

@PamD: I have added 23 references to Ernestina de Champourcín and abundant, fully sourced, text. There is room for further improvement on this page but this is a start.. As noted above, I also would be grateful for minor edits to references in AB (one reference and one broken link). I don't think I am allowed to do them, so I ask you for help re this. Sorry for the bother. Let me know if this is ok and thank you. Bioinfo 7 (talk) 05:56, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

I think some editors would say you've got far too many items listed as "Further reading" for Ernestina: the definition at MOS:FURTHER is " a reasonable number of publications that would help interested readers learn more about the article subject", but it's rarely that long. Don't be surprised is someone hacks it back to just a couple of them. I've made the tweaks to the AB article: if anything further needs doing, make suggestions on its talk page.

And I've worked out why I didn't get "pinged" when you added your note on 7 May: you added the "ping" as a separate afterthought edit, without a signature. It only works when you add the ping and your signature in the same edit. (Hence I sometimes find myself adding a PS to a post, pinging someone and signing, shrunk to a smaller font, when I've forgotten first time round.) PamD 07:14, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you @PamD:. Yes, I also think the Further Reading section is a bit big in Ernestina de Champourcín. Also I originally intended to write a proper full text to align with Spanish or Catalan sites. I have added a bio equivalent to that of the Catalan or Spanish sites now. Let me know what you think. Bioinfo 7 (talk) 12:22, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

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Broc (talk) 12:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

@Broc: Thank you! Bioinfo 7 (talk) 19:47, 3 July 2024 (UTC)