Pazemath

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Hello, I'm Jytdog. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 19:30, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Pazemath I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing about health and medicine. Your edits to date are adding references to the youexplained.com website. 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.

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. 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 youexplained.com? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with youexplained.com, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 19:32, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog. Sorry, I'm new to Wikipedia.

I'm a medical student and I write medical-related articles among other things on my blog mentioned, youexplained.com.

I noticed that I had written some stuff about ADHD that was relevant to some of the wikipedia pages on it, especially the Omega-3 Fish Oil connection, therefore, I decided to add my blog as a source.

Let me know what I need to do. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pazemath (talk • contribs) 10:05, 13 March 2016‎ (UTC) Jytdog (talk) 17:43, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

My very short answer is that you should never cite your blog in WIkipedia again. There is nothing correct about you having done that, and many things wrong with it, under Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. I will be happy to explain why, and very happy to help you get oriented, but you need to understand that this is not a conversation about whether you can cite it in the future. You can't. OK? (you are very very welcome to edit!! I just want to get clear on this thing first) Jytdog (talk) 17:43, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

What if someone else were to cite my blog in the future? Also, what if I wrote a peer-reviewed scientific article? I can't cite that on Wikipedia either because I wrote it?