User talk:Burgerhead
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{{My sandbox}} on your userpage.Sincerely, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:05, 7 January 2015 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:05, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
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Hello, Burgerhead. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Royal Society of Chemistry, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Randykitty (talk) 16:04, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hello Randykitty. Updates to this article were performed as part of a Wikipedia training session and we were advised that it was acceptable to make minor edits as long as we declared conflict of interest on our user page (i.e. my employment at the RSC)? However I am unlikely to edit another RSC page again so my apologies if this was inappropriate. Sorry for mistake with IF year - I was in fact returning to correct this. FYI I added Managing Editor as the previous listed EiC (Philip Earis) was in fact the previous Managing Editor - therefore I was uncertain whether EiC or managing editor should be listed so I put in both. The PCCP People and Contacts webpage in which you indicated the relevant contacts were not listed is in fact out of date and I have requested that this be updated. Additionally on checking (having left training session), Daniella Goldfarb recently stepped down as EiC to be replaced by Seong Keun Kim so I will make this minor change now as it is currently incorrect. With best wishes, Burgerhead (talk) 16:56, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Randykitty: Burgerhead's employment is declared on their user page in accordance with WMF policy and their edits were made according to both that and local Wikipedia policy. WP:BITE also applies here. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:51, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- This has nothing to do with BITE. Suddenly several people connected to this society pop up, some of them making promotional edits and all of them making edits to journals published by their society. Yes, they declared their COI, which is indeed perfect, but there is no way that I or anybnody else could know about any introductory session they got. Putting this COI template, which advices people how to handle this kind of situation does not seem to be bitey to me. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 19:35, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Burgerhead, in principle nothing is wrong with editing articles on which you have a COI, the template is meant to inform editors about the applicable guidelines. Making small corrections, such as the name of the editor-in-chief is no problem, but please remember that our articles have to reflect what the source says, not what you perhaps know to be true. So corrections can be made to WP articles only after they have been made on the website of the journal itself. I really don't intend to scare anyone away, but I specialize in articles on academic journals/publishers and there is often a lot of POV editing going on for such journals and it is a lot of work to keep things encyclopedic and neutral. People working for publishers are a mixed blessing. Some are excellent and will update (or even create) ,articles in an excellent way. But others (I am thinking particularly of a succession of Sage editors) create a mess that sometimes takes years to clean up. Working for this society and in academic publishing, there's a lot you can contribute to WP while steering away from articles in which you have a COI. If you see something that's incorrect (and so confirmed by sources), don't hesitate to drop me a note and I'll make the correction for you. --Randykitty (talk) 20:39, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Randykitty: No problem - was just trying to explain the changes (and IF mistake!) I made. As I said I am unlikely to edit further RSC pages as it is not my job to do so - I just picked this page to look at for our workshop as I noticed some details were incorrect - but I fully intend on contributing elsewhere in the chemistry field. :) Will happily pass on details on RSC pages that need changing in future if I spot them. Thank you for the clarification. Burgerhead (talk) 18:26, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
- @Pigsonthewing: Many thanks for excellent workshop Andy! Burgerhead (talk) 18:26, 8 January 2015 (UTC)