User talk:Marilyn Safran

Malacards

Following your 2014 request, properties for MalaCards were added to Wikidata, and to Wikipedia's {{Infobox disease}}. Please can you assist in adding data? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:37, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Diannaa,

I'm Marilyn Safran, head of GeneCards Suite development at the Weizmann Institute of Science (see https://www.genecards.org/Guide/GeneCardsTeam), which owns the copyright for GeneCards. While I appreciate your comments, I was shocked to see that my latest published edits from yesterday (and within the last month) no long appear - leaving the page with its obsolete and misleading information!! A lot of work was put into updating this page. Please restore the latest edits at your earliest convenience.

Thanks and all the best,

Marilyn Safran (talk) 07:38, 6 December 2023 (UTC) Marilyn[reply]

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Marilyn Safran. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page GeneCards, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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