Sulman29

Welcome

Wondering what your relationship is to the procedure in question. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:21, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Hey please explain what you are considering to be unsourced? everything is sourced in the stretta wiki. thank you.

Sulman29 (talk) 02:24, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

While we have had a number of editors from the company in question trying to edit that page. Your changes do not follow WP:MEDMOS and I am seeing big blocks of unreferenced / poorly referenced text. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 02:35, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay so I looked over the WP:MEDMOS and everything seems to be according to guidelines. Can you please elaborate and tell me what is specifically wrong and what blocks are unreferenced so that I can fix it?Sulman29 (talk) 16:23, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

The other guideline to read is WP:MEDRS. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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Conflicts of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Sulman29 I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your edits to date are all about the Stretta procedure and added unsourced and somewhat promotional content to the article - you appear to be here in Wikipedia only to deal with that article. 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, Sulman29. 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;
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• 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 any companies that make devices used in the Stretta procedure? 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), 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) 22:32, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

I am not affiliated with any companies that make devices used in stretta procedure, I am a student and am researching the technology as part of my school project. Also thank you for your help.Sulman29 (talk) 01:55, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Two questions. Why did you restore all the bad content that I removed, and what is your urgency around this? Jytdog (talk) 04:03, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Restoring the previous content was my own partaking, I knew the information currently available on the site was not the full extent of what stretta was so I went on the history and noticed there was more content, which for some reason got deleted so I took it upon myself to replace the material. Again, I am new here and would like to learn for future instances of this sort. Sulman29 (talk) 16:16, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

The material was removed because it violates Wikipedia content policies. By restoring it, you violated Wikipedia's content policies. You didn't answer the question about urgency. Please answer. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 17:09, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

I am unsure what you mean about my urgency. I just saw the information about the instrument i was researching was incomplete on a highly used website so I took action myself. I am a highly motivated individual and I like seeing things through. And as far as violating wikipedias policies, I had no idea that I was violating anything. It was only when you replied that I was aware of this, which is why I am asking for your help.Sulman29 (talk) 00:49, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

You have followed up with Doc James about five times, and you have not even tried to edit any other Wikipedia article. What you are doing does not make any sense if you are a student wanting to work in Wikipedia. Based on your behavior, your story doesn't make sense, and I am unwilling to help you at this point. Your behavior is exactly what I would expect from a company employee or someone editing Wikipedia for pay for a PR firm or as a freelancer, however, and I actually would help someone like that, who was honest about it. Funny. Jytdog (talk) 00:54, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

If you are indeed in one of those three situations (an employee of Mederi, or an employee at a PR firm, or a freelancer), you should be aware of WP:PAID and this: Wikipedia:Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms, and you should know how important it is to be ethical in Wikipedia, to protect the reputation of your employer, the reputation of your employer's client (if you work for a PR firm), and of course to protect the integrity of Wikipedia. If you are in that situation, you could simply tell the truth now, or you could abandon this account and open a new one, and start out on the right foot. I wouldn't care, either way - people make bad decisions all the time when they start out here and I believe in fresh starts.

If you are indeed a student, I am sorry but I am unwilling to help you with the Stretta article, and I encourage you to work on other topics in Wikipedia, starting with simple things so that you can learn how Wikipedia works. Jytdog (talk) 01:29, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

I actually am a student and I work for no companies also what is the point of working on other pages if I will be faced with the same problem as I am with you. And I am not researching any "other" topics at the moment.Sulman29 (talk) 01:40, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

The one article you are interested in is a medical topic that was filled with garbage by people who work for the company and want to abuse Wikipedia to sell things. If you want to work on the article, please read WP:MEDRS which is the guideline for sourcing content about health in Wikipedia. If you can find sources that comply with MEDRS about the procedure, you can bring them here to discuss them. Articles that are not about health, are easier to edit, since the sources are easier to find. That is why I suggested you work on other topics that might interest you in Wikipedia. Jytdog (talk) 01:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello Jytdog, I found something I would like to add. A study done by Herman et al. it discusses how the Radiofrequency treatment caused the number of smooth muscle fibers from the muscle bundles to increase. I wanted to run it by you before posting. here is the reference:

Herman, R. M., Berho, M., Murawski, M., Nowakowski, M., Ryś, J., Schwarz, T., . . . Wexner, S. D. (2015). Defining the histopathological changes induced by nonablative radiofrequency treatment of faecal incontinence - a blinded assessment in an animal model. Colorectal Dis Colorectal Disease, 17(5), 433-440. doi:10.1111/codi.12874 Sulman29 (talk) 23:34, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

That's a primary source in which people describe experiments they did and the results. We build Wikipedia content with literature reviews, in which scientists look at all the primary sources that have been published and tell us what they mean (or don't mean). This is described in WP:MEDRS which we discussed above. Jytdog (talk) 00:53, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Okay I read through the link and found a review article on the subject from the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, here is a quote that I would like to incorporate: "Stretta is likely the least expensive alternative to medical therapy. This technique should be considered a viable complement or alternative to medical and surgical treatment of GERD symptoms."

Reference:

Lo, W., & Mashimo, H. (2015). Critical Assessment of Endoscopic Techniques for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 49(9), 720-724. doi:10.1097/mcg.0000000000000389 

Also can i add images?

• File:Stretta PF RefluxReliefGraphic.jpg

Sulman29 (talk) 21:04, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

You can suggest that on the Talk page, sure. Jytdog (talk) 21:09, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

So i can go ahead and edit the stretta page with my secondary reference? and add an image? Sulman29 (talk) 22:21, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and updated the article with that review and another from the same year. I cannot speak to the image as I don't know where you got it. See here - please be very careful with copyright issues. Jytdog (talk) 00:26, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog, I was looking over the edits that you made: "Stretta is a minimally invasive endoscopic procedure for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) that delivers radiofrequency energy in the form of electric current" Question about this sentence, it shouldn't be electric current, radiofrequency is electromagnetic wave. Can I go ahead and change that? I will also be looking over it some more and ask you more questions if they come up.Sulman29 (talk) 15:43, 5 July 2016 (UTC)