User talk:Amccook

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WP:PAID/WP:COI
You claimed you created this image yourself.

What is your relation to the company in question? Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 23:55, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

I wrote medical and technical materials for the company and they gave me permission to use the image to portray how the TLD procedure can be performed to treat COPD.
 * Okay so as you work for the company in question you are not to edit the article directly going forwards. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 19:12, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Copy and pasting
We run "copy and paste" detection software on new edits. One of your edits appear to be infringing on someone else's copyright. See also Copy-paste. We at Wikipedia usually require paraphrasing. If you own the copyright to this material please follow the directions at Donating copyrighted materials to grant license. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:57, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

http://www.airflowtrial.com/the-procedure

October 2018
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. 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:. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:44, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
 * You appear to have declined to follow our rules regarding "paid editing" Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 19:45, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Doc James, I am no longer paid by the company, nor was I paid by the company to write the page. It is personal to me and I think the procedure is exciting. I'm also editing other wiki pages that interest me and I'm not paid for them either. How long until I am no longer blocked? This seems very extreme and very unfriendly, especially since this is an open, friendly community.
 * You are editing other Wikipedia pages of your other clients. You have been paid by these clients. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 20:46, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

unblock request

 * You were provided above instructions regarding what you need to do. You declined to follow community norms. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:11, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi Amccook. I spend time working on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. I am not an administrator.

Lots of people come to Wikipedia with some sort of conflict of interest and are not aware of how the editing community defines and manages conflict of interest. I try to help people understand this. This takes some back and forth, so I hope you can be patient and work through this, simply and directly. If you do, by the end you will be able to make an unblock request that will be successful.

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. Managing conflict of interest well, also protects conflicted editors and their clients themselves - please see WP:Wikipedia is in the real world, and Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia for some guidance and stories about people who have brought bad press upon themselves through unmanaged conflict of interest editing.

As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Above you wrote: I wrote medical and technical materials for the company and they gave me permission to use the image to portray how the TLD procedure can be performed to treat COPD.

Would you please explicitly disclose your relationship with Nuvaira? (Do you work for them directly, or are you a freelancer, or do you work for a medical writing or PR firm that has Nuvaira as a client? If the latter, please name that firm.) Once you reply and have fully disclosed your client, your employer, and any other affiliation, we can go on to the next step. Jytdog (talk) 23:27, 24 October 2018 (UTC)