DaP87
Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!
editWelcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED).
We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:
- Thanks for coming aboard! We always appreciate a new editor. Feel free to leave us a message at any time on our talk page. If you are interested in joining the project yourself, there is a participant list where you can sign up. Please leave a message on the WPMED talk page if you have any problems, suggestions, would like review of an article, need suggestions for articles to edit, or would like some collaboration when editing!
- Sourcing of medical and health-related content on Wikipedia is guided by our medical sourcing guidelines, commonly referred to as MEDRS. These guidelines typically require recent secondary sources to support information; their application is further explained here. Primary sources (case studies, case reports, research studies) are rarely used, especially if the primary sources are produced by the organisation or individual who is promoting a claim.
- The Wikipedia community includes a wide variety of editors with different interests, skills, and knowledge. We all manage to get along through a lot of discussion that happens under the scenes and through the bold, revert, discuss editing cycle. If you encounter any problems, you can discuss them on an article's talk page or post a message on the WPMED talk page.
Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:47, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia. For a quick orientation consider going through the Wikipedia Training Modules or The Wikipedia Adventure. Each of these training courses takes about an hour to complete. They cover much of the same information from different perspectives. Drop in at the WP:TEAHOUSE, WikiProject Medicine, or ping me you want support. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:50, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Conflict of interest editing
editHello, DaP87, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 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 our use and policy on paid editing.
Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
- 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! -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:05, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- Hi DaP87. I've added the above template for your reference based upon your post at c:COM:VPC#CC LICENSING. Although Wikipedia doesn't expressly prohibit COI editing, it does highly discourage it because it can sometimes lead to some serious problems. You haven't edited Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, but it does seem like you are intending to so which means you should adhere to the aforementioned COI guidelines when you edit. You need to be particularly careful with WP:FCOI and must declare any contributions you make to the article per WP:PAID is you're being compensated for them by the RWJF or anyone/anything associated with it. Undeclared paid-contributions is against the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Service and will lead to your account being blocked, so there's really no wiggle room with respect to that. One thing you might also let the RWJF know about is Wikipedia:Ownership of content; the article is written about the RWJF, but it's not really "its" article so to speak. In other words, nobody at the RWJF has any final editorial say of what content (including images) is added or removed; so, it would be best to follow WP:COIADVICE and use the article's talk page to discuss such things instead of directly editing the article yourself. If you've got any questions about this, you can ask them below or you can ask them at WP:COIN. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:15, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
- Hello Marchjuly! thank you for the information you provided it is very helpful, and i appreciate the concern but i can promise you i did not intend to actually edit directly to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, i know that is huge conflict of interest, and i respect the work that is being done here to violate any rules. I planned on using the request edit templates and working with the community to ensure it is being done the right way, and understanding I, a RWJF employee, have zero say in any final editing decisions. Thank you again for the templates and for providing great detail on how it should be done. It is greatly appreciated DaP87 (talk) 12:17, 9 August 2018 (UTC)