User talk:Achishol

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January 2009
The recent edit you made to The Society for Clinical Ophthalmology constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. – Capricorn42 ( talk ) 17:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Clinical Ophthalmology (the journal). If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. – Capricorn42 ( talk ) 17:16, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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Note to other editors and Achishol : Achishol appears to have a clear WP:COI with editing The Society for Clinical Ophthalmology and Clinical Ophthalmology (the journal). I think the deletions by Achishol were just some good faith attempts to try to rectify the coi problems. If anyone wants to delete these articles, WP:SPEEDY or WP:PROD would be the appropriate ways to do so. --Ronz (talk) 19:31, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Am not sure if this is how to respond to these alerts (I'm afraid I'm new to Wikipedia). Jan 27 was the first time I've ever really used the site and was requested to do so to post factual information about a new ophthalmology society. I work with the society and we'd noticed that other societies appear in Wikipedia. We had not intended for it to appear as advertising and only supplied information about Clinical Ophthalmology (the journal) to help demonstrate notability of the society posting (by showing support for the society from an external body), not to create a conflict of interest. I suppose notability is difficult to demonstrate when something is new. However the existence of the society is factually accurate as are its aims and objectives, and we hope that its existence is of note and of interest to practitioners in eye care and to patients. In saying that, I am happy to take on board any suggestions for how to remedy the situation. My apologies (Achishol (talk) 11:24, 28 January 2009 (UTC))
 * Thanks for responding. Both articles need multiple, independent, reliable sources that demonstrate notability of the subject.  Otherwise they can be deleted or reduced to a minimal article.  Given that both the journal and especially the society are fairly new, this it be difficult to find such sources, so a minimal article (stub) is probably the best solution for now. --Ronz (talk) 16:27, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, I've created a stub for the society now. Hopefully that's a better approach. The article can then be removed if it's not deemed to be notable Achishol (talk) 17:00, 28 January 2009 (UTC)]

IIIIn particular, we need memebership for the society, and circulartion or readership for the journal. We also need 3rd party independent reliable published sources, print or online (but not blogs or press releases, or material based on press releases) that talk about ether. DGG (talk) 10:08, 25 February 2009 (UTC)