User:Alexduwright

Well, that was fast! I'm now proudly affiliated with a non-profit focused on my area of interest - Silverlining. This is definitely, incontrovertibly, a conflict of interest as relates to edits or articles relating to this organization (though I'm still less clear about the broader field/subject), and I intend to follow closely WP:COI, WP:RS, WP:V and WP:NPOV, regardless. Thank you!

I'm currently drafting and proposing an article about the director of SilverLining, Kelly Wanser. Alexduwright (talk) 20:58, 9 June 2020 (UTC) Hello, Wikipedia! I'm here to make contributions to articles in which I have some subject matter expertise, most of which I have acquired as a result of my professional history as a former evaluator of research proposals for the US government, and as a current academic pursuing a PhD, mostly around climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies. I am "a longtime listener, first time caller" to Wikipedia, and am trying to get started as opposed to spending too much time trying to pass as something other than a newb.

I have been puzzling over the COI declarations and am not sure exactly how to parse particular categories - but in the interests of transparency and an abundance of caution, I'd like to declare that I have been paid by funders of research into various subjects, and that I eventually hope to be paid to research some of those same subjects - but I am not currently being paid by anyone, unfortunately. I guess I'm thinking of my efforts for Wikipedia as a bit like a programmer contributing to an open-source software project, in that my intentions are not purely selfless, but that the pathway to an actual COI is indirect and depends on the quality of my contributions according to the standards of the project to which I am contributing. I hope. Let me know!

Anyway, there it is! Looking forward to it. Alexduwright (talk) 19:55, 5 April 2020 (UTC)