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Welcome to Wikipedia from the Wikiproject Medicine!

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

Welcome to Wikipedia from Wikiproject Medicine (also known as WPMED).

We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of content about health here on Wikipedia, pursuing the mission of Wikipedia to provide the public with articles that present accepted knowledge, created and maintained by a community of editors.

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Feel free to drop a note below if you have any questions or problems. I wish you all the best here in Wikipedia! --Jytdog (talk) 00:05, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Knopaxx. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. Your edits to date are promotional with respect the Revivent medical device. 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, Knopaxx. 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. 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 COI 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 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. 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. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with BioVentrix, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), if it is relevant 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) 00:08, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog, I'm a graduate student and published one of the articles cited in the references. My paper involved reviewing the procedure. I was not paid by the company to write that paper or to write this Wikipedia article, and I used another Wikpedia article as source to help me write this article (the type and amount of info I included). Let me know what other info is required. I'm happy to work through the process of getting the article to conform with Wikipedia's guidelines, but I will need a bit of help since Im still learning. Thank you.Knopaxx (talk) 07:49, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting (see WP:THREAD) - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, which the Wikipedia software will render into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front of your comment, which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. That is how we know who said what to whom and when.

Please be aware that threading and signing are fundamental etiquette here, as basic as "please" and "thank you", and continually failing to thread and sign communicates rudeness, and eventually people may start to ignore you (see here).

I know this is insanely archaic and unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 16:32, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Replying on the substance now.... Hm. Would you please let me know what page in WP you used as a model? That page needs improving, apparently.

As for the conflict of interest matters. I am willing to accept what you wrote. You really should avoid citing yourself unless you happened to have authored the absolutely perfect paper to cite in WP. There are guidelines around what sources we use. You will come to understand them with time.

The page should not be in what we call "mainspace" as it stands. We have a space for drafts. Would you be OK if I moved the page to draft space so that you could work on it more? Jytdog (talk) 16:41, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog, the Wikipedia page I used as a source here was MitraClip. In response to moving the page to draft space, yes, that would be fine by me, though Im uncertain if the page would ever meet the necessary requirements since currently it consists of only two basic sentences and it still has a box saying it is promotional, and another editor has suggested it be deleted. If Wikipedia doesnt accept this sort of subject, then Im ok just giving up on this. Let me know. Again, thanks for your help. Knopaxx (talk) 16:33, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. There is one good review that discusses this product that I identified on the article talk page. As I wrote there, between that ref and standard RS to describe the history (invention and early development, business/regulatory history) there could be an article, i think... Jytdog (talk) 16:42, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog, Ok will give it a try based on your comments above. What happens now? How do we move the page to a draft space? Knopaxx (talk) 09:22, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Great, I went ahead and moved it. I also shortened the page name. The page is now at Draft:Revivent.

So knock yourself out! Please do keep WP:MEDMOS in mind as you work. There are suggested sections there, as well general guidelines (we don't use the word "patient" for example). Also please use independent sources as much as possible. The review should drive all the medical content. On the non-medical content, it is ok to fill in around the edges a little with primary sources but secondary sources should drive.

Let me know if you want help at any point. I have the page watchlisted and may do a little here and there to help.

When you are done, you can push the big blue button to submit the draft for review. It might take a couple of months to get reviewed but it will happen! Jytdog (talk) 13:42, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

As always, thanks for your help Jytdog. Will give it a try... Knopaxx (talk) 18:36, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Revivent-TC Transcatheter Ventricular Enhancement System

The article Revivent-TC Transcatheter Ventricular Enhancement System has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not a procedure, a product. The sources are all affiliated. No independent sources for this.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Guy (Help!) 14:55, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Revivent has been accepted

Revivent, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

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Legacypac (talk) 08:24, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Revivent for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Revivent is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Revivent until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Guy (Help!) 16:19, 11 June 2018 (UTC)