User talk:Professor Don

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was ACAM2000, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, visit the Teahouse, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! :Jay8g [V•T•E] 07:12, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the Wikipedia page about me. I am a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, and a member of the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Guideline Development Group. I have no conflicts of interest with the information about who developed the ACAM2000 vaccinia virus smallpox vaccine. However, because of my NIH funded research and many decades of work in the field, I am aware that the article about ACAM2000 is incorrect. Emergent BioSolutions did not develop the vaccine. It purchased the rights to it in 2017. It was developed by Tom Monath and a team at Acambis in the early 2000s. I linked to a peer reviewed publication documenting the development published in 2004 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110559) and a press release from Emergent BioSolutions from when they purchased the rights to the vaccine over a decade later. Please reinstate my edits. Professor Don (talk) 14:33, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The rapid deletion of my edits, given that I am a senior authority in the field, is very concerning. Professor Don (talk) 14:34, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I've updated my user page to point to the Wikipedia page that someone created about me. I've also edited that Wikipedia page to add some more current information about my activities. That's about all the time I have to put into this. Please see the information I posted in the replies above and fix the misinformation in the ACAM2000 article. Regards, Professor Don (talk) 18:26, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You should not, in most cases, edit the article about yourself either. In both cases you should usually make formal edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page(Talk:Donald Milton, Talk:ACAM2000). 331dot (talk) 07:01, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]