Whilst I agree and gave exactly that advice yesterday to someone who then wrote a review of an article on a talkpage explaining where her publication contradicted it, another editor promptly responded with the suggestion that of course she didn't have a COI and she should amend the article citing her own work.
We need to be frank about the differing interpretations of COI in the community. Regards Jonathan Cardy > On 16 Apr 2015, at 02:17, Joe Filceolaire <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>> ) >>> >>> >>> 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:Biographies_of_living_persons >>> >>> · 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 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk
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