Stephane Redon

Managing a conflict of interest

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

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 11:34, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for your help with editing on WP.

I do have a COI regarding the SAMSON page. However:

• The contents of the SAMSON page are purely factual, and do not contain any subjective opinion on the platform.
• The structure of the page is similar to numerous other pages describing scientific software (history, software architecture, characteristics, etc.)

As indicated in the comments attached to my edits, SAMSON now (2021) has thousands of registered users in over 100 countries, and is used worldwide for molecular modeling in numerous domains, including life sciences, materials science and drug design, etc., as evidenced by independent academic references mentioned in the SAMSON page, including for example:

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98902-z
• https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/13/21/3823/pdf

mentions in news sites:

• https://www.macinchem.org/search/?cx=partner-pub-4009912495867492%3A7313141114&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=samson

mentions in products updates of independent software, e.g:

• https://kb.parallels.com/en/125053

usage in molecular modeling tutorials, e.g.:

• https://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Sculpting_protein_conformations

etc.

I note that Google Scholar appears to be one notability criteria in the added tag, since GS is precisely one of the ways that WP suggests to assess notability.

Since I should not edit the SAMSON page due to the COI, and as suggested above, I thus propose that an editor removes the notability warning.

Thanks again for your help with editing on WP. Stephane Redon (talk) 02:24, 29 November 2021 (UTC)