I would be alarmed should a researcher with a "surprising" finding think they should contribute that directly to an article about a foundational issue, citing only their own work. That would be pretty likely to get pulled out.
"New" findings of this sort, should never, in my opinion, be contributed. Full Stop.
Once those findings have been verified by others in that field, we are in a different territory of course. "New surprising findings", self-contributed, are anathema to encyclopedias.
-----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Gristock gristock@me.com To: Wikimedia Education education@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, Jul 10, 2014 11:49 am Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Overcoming a roadblock to engagement
If a researcher has new results in a particular field, a published, surprising research finding that confounds expectations, I think it might be understandable why they might feel most passionate and most knowledgeable about those new findings and might want to share them inside a Wikipedia article.
That is all I said. I did not say they could not contribute.
I do think that it would be very strange to insist that a researcher can't insert a fact and a (self-citing) reference into an article because that would be a COI. But if that is how it is, then I would like to know. And I also feel that if one of the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation is to encourage more academics to edit Wilkipedia, then having a clear policy on this is rather important, and these questions that I am asking here is me trying to find out what the policy and technical data-crunching possibilities are with respect to self-citing and student/colleague citing.
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-c...
With best wishes
Jen
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On 10 Jul 2014, at 19:14, Wjhonson wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Which is rather a downer for the professor, because this means they are
forbidden to write about the things they are most passionate and knowledgeable about.)
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