UPellegrini

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Conflict of interest and advocacy in Wikipedia

Hi UPellegrini - I work on conflict of interest and advocacy issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine, including biotech. Your edits to date are... enthusiastic about lean startups, accelerators, etc, including adding citations to low quality blogs and embedded URLs (which are spammy)> People who are advocaates and people who have a financial conflict of interest tend to edit very, very similarly here in WP. 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 in the hopes of opening a discussion.

Hello, UPellegrini. 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. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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. 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 so even though you have a username that ~looks like~ that of a real world person, we are not allowed here to read anything into that) would you please disclose if you have real world relationships with any of the companies you have edited about? 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), 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, especially with regard to our mission of being an encyclopedia, which a lot of people struggle to wrap their heads around. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 18:13, 17 November 2017 (UTC)