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WP:COI

Please read and follow. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:25, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikpedia

Hi Irenepark89. I spend time working on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. I am not an administrator. Your edits to date are promotional with respect to the Buck Institute.

Lots of people come to Wikipedia with some sort of conflict of interest and are not aware of how the editing community defines and manages conflict of interest. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Irenepark89. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. Managing conflict of interest well, also protects conflicted editors themselves - please see WP:Wikipedia is in the real world, and Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia for some guidance and stories about people who have brought bad press upon themselves through unmanaged conflict of interest editing.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. Here in Wikipedia such disclosures must be made explicitly. Would you please disclose any connection you have with Buck? After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 06:29, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog, thank you for your comments! Full disclosure, I do work for the Buck Institute. I wanted to clean up and correct some sections of the wiki article because I thought the some sections were structured badly and/or contained outdated information. Please let me know what is the next step for peer review! Thank you. Irenepark89 (talk) 22:32, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Your sandbox draft

I believe that I've extracted all the useful sources/citations from your version of Buck Institute for Research on Aging, located at User:Irenepark89/sandbox. If you think that I've missed something important, please let me know.

A couple of points - (1) Wikipedia articles aren't the place to document every grant, new partnership, community action, etc., of an organization. If something is important enough for Wikipedia, whose articles are intended to be overviews, that ideally should have multiple coverage in the media (even if only one source is actually cited); (2) as you can probably tell, we very much dislike press releases and information that comes directly from the topic being covered, such as from a website (see WP:V).

Also, if you do post something here, and I don't respond within a week or so, please feel free to drop a note at User talk:John Broughton, where I'm more likely to notice. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 18:48, 17 May 2019 (UTC)