User talk:Abdighaf

Conflict of interest
Hello Abdighaf. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice. Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly. Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Abdighaf. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jytdog (talk) 02:40, 19 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello. Thank you for the message on Wikipedia policy on conflict of interest. I am not been compensated for my contributions to Wikipedia on the subject of “inhaled nitric oxide”. Having said that, I cannot declare complete unbiased edits. I’m a scientist at Queen’s Cancer Research Institute (http://www.path.queensu.ca/faculty/ghaffari/) and have published in the field of nitric oxide therapy in the past (see list below). After a gap in my research due to graduate and postdoctoral training, I'm re-focusing my research on the role of nitric oxide in infections and upon a quick search on Wikipedia, I discovered a lack of sufficient and current information on “Inhaled nitric oxide” topic. That’s when I decided to update some of the pages where “inhaled nitric oxide” therapy is currently under investigation in clinical trials to treat infections and the most common area is lung infection. As a researcher at a public academic research institutions, I do not make a financial gain from updating wikipedia and the main goal is to elevate public knowledge and awareness on this area of research.


 * 1. Ghaffari A., R. Jalili, M. Ghaffari, C. Miller, A. Ghahary. Efficacy of gaseous nitric oxide in treatment of skin and soft tissue infections. Wound Repair Regen 2007, 15(3):368-377.
 * 2. Ghaffari, A, C.C. Miller, B. McMullin, A. Ghahary. Potential Application of Gaseous Nitric Oxide as a topical antimicrobial agent. Nitric Oxide. 2006 Feb;14(1):21-9.
 * 3. Ghaffari, A., D.H. Neil, A. Ardakani, J. Road, A. Ghahary, C.C. Miller. A direct nitric oxide gas delivery system for bacterial and mammalian cell cultures. Nitric Oxide 12(3):129-140, 2005.
 * 4. Ghaffari A., C.C. Miller, R.B. Jalili, A. Karami, A. Ghahary. Potential use of nitric oxide gas as an antimicrobial agent in cutaneous wound infection. Wound Rep Reg, 13(2): A39, 2005. 15th Annual Meeting of the Wound Healing Society, Chicago, May 2005.
 * 5. Ghaffari A., Miller C.C, Ardakani A., Kilani RT., Karami A., Ghahary A. Exogenous nitric oxide gas in chronic wound infection. Wound Rep Reg 11(2): A11, 2003. 13th Annual Meeting of the Wound Healing Society, Seattle, Washington, May 2003.


 * --Abdighaf(talk) 09:05, 19 August 2017


 * Thanks for your gracious reply! Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, and the Wikipedia software converts that into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this  in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread.  I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit.  That is how we know who said what.  I know this is insanely archaic and unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that.  Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 00:57, 20 August 2017 (UTC)


 * OK, Thanks again for your reply. That makes sense.  I am sorry I went for the harsher template above - usually I ask a more gentle question to open a conversation.
 * I will give you a "welcome" message below, from wikiproject medicine. The message itself provides a quick overview of how we work on health content, and there are links with more information that you will find very helpful.
 * I appreciate the desire (very much!) to cover not only the basic science, but efforts by companies to turn the science into medicine. It is difficult (not impossible) to do that without tipping over into promotional editing.  I'll go back over your edits and see what I can do to restore them.
 * What would be really helpful, is if you could provide any citations you are aware of to recent reviews in good quality journals that cover the science as well as commercial developments. Those are the kinds of sources we really value here, and someone like you is perfectly positioned to provide them (I can search pubmed with the best of them, but this is not my field) .....
 * anyway thanks again for being so gracious, and please do see the welcome message below! Jytdog (talk) 01:01, 20 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the reply and info. Very helpful. I have a much clearer idea on policies and best practices on updating wiki pages related to medical sciences. Once I have access, I can edit my updates based on these recommendations. Abdighaf (talk) 19:24, 20 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi. Here is a pubmed link to a Nature review on antimicrobial properties of nitric oxide - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15378046. I had included this reference in some of my edits. Should I proceed with the edits or would you like to update the existing edits? Thank you. Abdighaf (talk) 15:00, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I have not gotten back to that yet - you are totally free to do it!!! Jytdog (talk) 00:12, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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September 2017
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for meatpuppetry. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. GABgab 14:09, 9 September 2017 (UTC)