User talk:Geoffrey I Webb

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Geoffrey I Webb! I am Calaka and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Calaka (talk) 09:18, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for this useful information Calaka.

I do indeed know David Green who is a colleague in my University Department and did not realise that there was a need to declare such. Given that I have now submitted the article, can you please advise how I should best declare the CoI?

With thanks,

Geoff Geoffrey I Webb (talk) 02:46, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Geoff, I believe you also have a COI with Geoffrey Webb and perhaps other topics to which you have contributed. You will need to declare all of your COIs (see WP:COIDECLARE), and you should not edit the articles directly but rather make edit requests. If you need help making the declarations, let me know. You may also find WP:EXPERT helpful.

I have moved David Green to draft, Draft:David Geoffrey Green, because most of the content is unsourced and what is sourced is to his own publications which is a primary source and not independent. I also suspect some of it is synthesis. While it is in draft you are welcome to make improvements to address the issues then submit it for review. If you have questions, you can ask at the Teahouse. S0091 (talk) 14:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Geoffrey I Webb. 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 conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. S0091 (talk) 16:35, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

David Geoffrey Green moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to David Geoffrey Green. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. S0091 (talk) 14:13, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, I note that this account seems to be used solely for the purposes of curating your own article, adding citations to your own work to other articles, and writing articles about your family or colleagues - i.e. all matters about which you have a clear conflict of interest. Could I please ask you to fully familiarise yourself with the conflict of interest guidelines (here WP:COI), particularly in relation to WP:COISELF and WP:SELFCITE.

I have removed a number of your self-citations from various articles, which are essentially spam as they were not requested via the COI edit process.

It would also be useful if you were to add some relevant citations to the article you created about your father, which is almost entirely unsourced. I have left the article as it stands but I feel that I must advise you that if the material remans unsourced another editor might potentially delete sections of the article or nominate the entire article for deletion. Regards, Axad12 (talk) 14:49, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Axad12.

Thank you for pointing out my inadvertent violations of the CoI policy, which I believe only came into being after I started contributing to Wikipedia and which I was unaware of until advised of in the past month or so, and which I have followed in my single contribution since being notified of it.

I have been open about my contributions, adding them under my name (and not even hiding behind a pseudonym) so that my connection to the material is declared and transparent to all.

Is it possible for me to find out which of my contributions you have removed so that I can set about requesting their reinstatement? I have been scrupulous about only adding information that is factual and that I believe to be of wide interest.

I will look into finding further references for the article about my father and will declare a CoI with respect to it.

Regards @Geoffrey I Webb 2001:388:608C:4C52:A1FF:BDFB:E695:9FB (talk) 05:01, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for your response.

The articles involved were Dynamic time warping, Incremental decision tree and Associative classifier. You should be able to see the exact removals via the 'View History' tab on each article (top right).

I should have noted in my post above that I do appreciate your recent disclosure and compliance with the COI policy. It should now hopefully be relatively straightforward to get the historical contributions in line with the policy.

I do also appreciate that the contributions were made transparently under your real name, but I'm sure you will understand that with a website of this size it is impossible for edits to be checked as they are made, hence the desirability of having them approved up front via the COI edit request policy.

Thanks again for your recent co-operation on this point which is much appreciated. Regards, Axad12 (talk) 06:46, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]