Talk:Sarah Thompson (physicist)

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because contains a clear assertion of notability as being MBE and fellow of the Institute of Physics, a prestigious appointment by election. Also has won an award from them. Philafrenzy (talk) 11:17, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Question re COI
Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline advises: "If you have a personal connection to a topic or person, you are advised to refrain from editing those articles directly and to provide full disclosure of the connection if you comment about the article on talk pages or in other discussions." (Emphasis added.) In our lede, Professor Sarah Thompson is identified as Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Science at the University of York. The most recent edits to this page are by. may know Professor Thompson. If so, it might be best if this editor were to provide full disclosure of her connection to the subject of this BLP. NedFausa (talk) 16:47, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

As a precaution, I temporarily reverted changes by, so that our lede again states Professor Thompson's title as head of the department of physics at the University of York. NedFausa (talk) 17:43, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , I've removed part of your reply as it violates WP:OUTING. It is acceptable to ask if a user has a COI and to disclose, but it is inappropriate to attempt to determine how a person has a COI; an editor needs to nothing more than say "I have a COI" or "I know the subject" to declare their COI.
 * On a related note, I have undone your revert; the change is completely uncontroversial and entirely supported by the new reference, so COI or not there is no issue with the change (the quote says "advised to refrain" not "prohibited from editing"). Primefac (talk) 10:58, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

I do work with Professor Thompson, this was my first edit and I didn't realise it would be seen as a COI as I made a factual sourced update. Where do I declare a COI? HelenNiblock (talk) 13:54, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * you've made it now. You don't need to say any more than what you have said. As has been referred to above you aren't prohibited from editing any article where there is a COI especially when as this edit was it was straightforward and factual. Nthep (talk) 15:42, 16 February 2020 (UTC)