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Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 18:48, 8 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

March 2016

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello, I'm Flyer22 Reborn. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Elaine S. Edwards has been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 07:54, 8 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

hi Jadame7. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. In this comment you disclosed a personal relationship with the subject of the article, Elaine S. Edwards. 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, Jadame7. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

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

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. 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. 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, and you have made that disclosure.

The second step if a form of "peer review". This piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and viola there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary - no publisher, no editors. Nothing to prevent conflicts of interest from entering into WIkipedia.

What we ask editors to do who have a COI and want to work on articles where their COI is relevant, is if you want to change content in any existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself.

By following that "peer review" processes, editors with a COI can contribute where they have a COI, and the integrity of WP can be protected. I hope that makes sense to you.

Also, you are new here, and you may not understand that the community has put in place policies and guidelines over the years, that help us work together to create quality content. Please do make sure you ask if things are OK, and if people say "no", please do listen to the answer and the reasons given. There is lots of room to work in Wikipedia, but there are things to learn.

If anything I wrote above doesn't make sense I would be happy to discuss. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 18:54, 8 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

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