Whilst I agree and gave exactly that advice yesterday to someone who then wrote a review of an article on a talkpage explaining where her publication contradicted it, another editor promptly responded with the suggestion that of course she didn't have a COI and she should amend the article citing her own work.

We need to be frank about the differing interpretations of COI in the community.

Regards

Jonathan Cardy


On 16 Apr 2015, at 02:17, Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire@gmail.com> wrote:

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@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@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 )

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:Biographies_of_living_persons

·       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


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