User:QTJ/Essays/Conflicts of interest

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
I,, am the author of some of the papers that I may end up citing in an article. It is inevitable, especially in my particular subfield (adaptive grammar theory), which is highly specialized (but by no means a "club of one"), this will happen, as I am a cited subject matter expert in the subfield of adaptive grammar theory and practice.

In short, my feelings on this are simple: as a subject matter expert who has contributed to the field in some small way, it may from time to time seem relevant to cite my own previously published results. Others may beg to differ on this, and that is their right.

As such, I suspect is probably the best policy for me to recuse myself in advance from replacing (or asking to be replaced) any citation and/or content specifically related to my own research, should someone remove them from an article I have either initially authored or edited. That said, anyone wishing to practice revisionist history on my research in this manner, I do ask that you visit my talk page and explain why you have done so, in order that I may learn from the incision. I realize this puts me in a vulnerable situation with respect to random vandals, but I simply have neither the time nor inclination to become engaged in defending my edits, except through their NPOV content.

Because I am Chief Scientist of a company that has a commercial parser technology, I try to be very careful when I edit any page that might be seen to be a conflict-of-interests. Providing citations, putting tags, or whatever, I don't see as a conflict, just requests for further clarification. In those cases where I know the specific citations that support claims made, I may insert them myself. This is a bit tricky if the article doesn't have a consistent References style, and in these cases, I may put the and try to provide the citations on the article's discussion page so that they may be worked in later, when the page has evolved a bit to allow for formal citations.