The first rule of COI editing is DON'T
If an article really needs to be changed then post a comment on the talk
page then ask for help on the COI noticeboard
IMO no new editor should try anything more complicated than that
Joe
On 16 Apr 2015 00:33, "Richard Symonds"
<richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
I'll get someone to drop you an email or call with
advice tomorrow Rod,
notwithstanding Andy's (welcome) advice!
On 15 Apr 2015 20:48, "Rod Ward" <rodward(a)plus.net> wrote:
I have agreed to do a workshop on behalf of
Wikimedia UK on 15th July
and would appreciate some advice about the best ways to deal with topics
around Conflict of Interest, Biographies of Living Persons and possibly
Paid editing.
This will be at the University of Exeter and 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 (eg
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Academics_of_the_University_of_Exeter*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Academics_of_the_University_of_Exeter>
)
This was originally discussed with Daria in 2013 and then was going to
be held in 2014 (Chris McKenna, HJ Mitchell, Martin Poulter etc were
copied into the planning). I emailed various experts in March and added
it to an email to Richard – but have not had any response from any of them
I have looked at:
· *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest>
·
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons>
· *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view>
and feel reasonably comfortable with the content, but would appreciate
any advice on the best way to get these across to this target group, as
beyond basic editing I think these will be the most useful areas for the
participants to engage with.
Rod
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia UK mailing list
wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
WMUK:
https://wikimedia.org.uk
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia UK mailing list
wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org
http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
WMUK:
https://wikimedia.org.uk