On 15 April 2015 at 20:48, Rod Ward rodward@plus.net wrote:
the expected participants are web people and possibly other comms people from universities in the south west of England. Their objective is to improve the wp articles on academics from their institutions
I think you will definitely hit CoI issues. I would suggest that you make *certain* that everyone declares their affiliation on their user page. Other than that, the best you can do is to explain WP policies at length and encourage them to refrain from anything too promotional. Also, post a list of the articles here (or on-wiki) so we can all watch over them and assist any newbies who are hounded.
Also, please ask them to give the academics' ORCID iDs, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ORCID