Birch1896

Welcome!

Hello, Birch1896, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Kenneth Zaret‎‎, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Best practices for editors with close associations
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• Contributing to Wikipedia
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
• Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! UtherSRG (talk) 11:46, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Good Afternoon UtherSRG,

I appreciate this message and all the information. I would like some help navigating the contribution I made to Kenneth Zaret's page. I do work in the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. I reviewed the various policies that are flagged on the article and see that there are some necessary disclosures and a process to avoid conflicts of interest that I should have leveraged when making these changes to Ken's page (drafting, articles for creation).

What's the best way for me to get Zaret's page to a higher content rating and resolve the issues? I'm happy to revert to the old version of the page and follow correct process if that's the appropriate protocol.

Birch1896 (talk) 20:58, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

To start with, it'd be appreciated if you follow our instructions re: full disclosure of your conflict of interest.

How to get the page to a 'higher content rating' – you mean this? DS (talk) 21:58, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes, that's what I meant. I wasn't clear on whether it was an issue for it to be classified as a "stub."

I've added my affiliation to my user page and added a COI declaration to the talk page for Kenneth Zaret. Birch1896 (talk) 20:30, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

If an article is a stub, that's just an indicator of its general length. To get it to a higher content rating: first, expand it. Then, wait for someone else to come along and assess it. That second part might take days, months, or even years. It'll get done eventually; there's no deadline. DS (talk) 17:52, 21 December 2023 (UTC)