User talk:BrettofMoore

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Hello, BrettofMoore, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Advanced cardiac life support, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 11:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm Graham87. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you unlinked one or more redlinks from Pharmacist. Often redlinks can be helpful, so we don't remove them just because they are red. They help improve Wikipedia by attracting editors to create needed articles.

In addition, clicking on the "What links here" special link (in the Wikipedia Toolbox at left) on a missing article shows how many—and which—articles depend on that article being created. This can help prioritize article creation. Redlinks are useful! Please, only remove a redlink if you are pretty sure that it is to a non-notable topic and not likely ever to be created. Thanks!

However, your [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=School_counselor&diff=prev&oldid=627692747 removal of red links from a see also section] was fine, as they're not meant to contain links to non-existent articles. Graham 87 02:56, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

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Spam
Your recent changes adds a spam link. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:55, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Re:Spam
I apologize. I didn't realize that was a company link. I didn't see anything about Endograph Solutions or whatever on the page. It seemed authoritative and simple enough for the layman to understand. The initial link, sorry I missed the last flagged note, about medical edits was simply the only resource I could find to back up the facts. Due to the fact that even the highly medical resources I tried to put in seem to be not great from your point of view, I'll steer clear of editing medical pages in the future. --BrettofMoore 13:14, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi BrettofMoore. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with regular editing which is mostly on health and medicine. This edit was promotional with regard to a medical device made by EndoGastric Solutions. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, BrettofMoore. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
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 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests
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. 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).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with EndoGastric Solutions, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk further about how COI is managed in Wikipedia, and then I can give you some more orientation to how this place works if you like. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 00:51, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Reply
Sorry If I'm doing this wrong. I don't really reply to Talk pages all that much. I didn't realize the edit I had thrown in was a conflict of interest. The site I linked to was GerdHelp, not the Endo site. I apologize for the confusion. Is there anyone else I need to talk to get this out of the way? Do you need to be a doctor to edit medical pages? Should I steer clear of them? Even the peer papers, I tried to link to didn't seem to be good enough. Anyway, I'm planning on steering clear of editing things that Doc_James is on and the more medically geared articles for now. Let me know what I need to do to put this behind me. --BrettofMoore 13:25, 18 April 2017 (UTC)