The first rule of COI editing is DON'T If an article really needs to be changed then post a comment on the talk page then ask for help on the COI noticeboard
IMO no new editor should try anything more complicated than that Joe On 16 Apr 2015 00:33, "Richard Symonds" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll get someone to drop you an email or call with advice tomorrow Rod, > notwithstanding Andy's (welcome) advice! > On 15 Apr 2015 20:48, "Rod Ward" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have agreed to do a workshop on behalf of Wikimedia UK on 15th July >> and would appreciate some advice about the best ways to deal with topics >> around Conflict of Interest, Biographies of Living Persons and possibly >> Paid editing. >> >> This will be at the University of Exeter and the expected participants are >> web >> people and possibly other comms people from universities in the south west >> of England. Their objective is to improve the wp articles on academics from >> their institutions (eg >> *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Academics_of_the_University_of_Exeter* >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Academics_of_the_University_of_Exeter> >> ) >> >> This was originally discussed with Daria in 2013 and then was going to >> be held in 2014 (Chris McKenna, HJ Mitchell, Martin Poulter etc were >> copied into the planning). I emailed various experts in March and added >> it to an email to Richard – but have not had any response from any of them >> >> I have looked at: >> >> · *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest* >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest> >> >> · >> *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons* >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons> >> >> · *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view* >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view> >> >> and feel reasonably comfortable with the content, but would appreciate >> any advice on the best way to get these across to this target group, as >> beyond basic editing I think these will be the most useful areas for the >> participants to engage with. >> >> Rod >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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