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-contributions

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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