User talk:CAGoddard



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Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 17:15, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia, WP:PAID editing
Hi CAGoddard. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your edits to date are all about Tal Medical and their products; you are editing here under your real name and you work for them. 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, CAGoddard. 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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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 does highly value contributions by subject matter experts; at the same time, experts have some special challenges when they first start editing here. Please see the essay with advice for experts, WP:EXPERTS, which discusses both sides of that coin and provides some guidance as to how Wikipedia is different from other kinds of scientific publishing.

Additionally, 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).

There are two pieces to COI management in Wikipedia - disclosure and a form of peer review. Let's start with the disclosure piece, and then I can walk you through the peer review piece. Would you please acknowledge that you work for Tal and have a COI in Wikipedia with regard to Tal and the field in which its products operate? You can reply here, just below, and then we can do the second piece. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 17:21, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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Hi- thanks for reaching out and the clarification. I do work for Tal, but don't have a COI regarding to it. Let me know how to proceed. CAGoddard (talk) 17:24, 5 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I was asked to comment. If you work for them you inherently have a conflict of interest according to our policy--so as far as our rules are concerned, you've declared it here, and should declare it on the article talk page also. You probably meant to say that you think you can be objective despite the conflict of interest. Perhaps so, but not many people can write about themselves or their employer in a purely objective manner, and nobody at all can possibly be a good judge of their own objectivity.
 * You also need to check WP:MEDRS--reliable sources for medical articles, especially those dealing with the benefits of particular forms of treatment, require especially good references, preferably recent review articles from major journals. Individual research papers are not considered sufficiently reliable for the purpose, and it is considered WP:Original research to use them in such a way as to say or imply that the procedure has merit.
 * What you can most usefully do here about these products is give us a list of potential references that you know of on the article talk page, and let other people decide whether or not to use them in the article. What you can best do here in general is to write about general topics in your area of expertise that do not dealspecifically with your company's products or interests.  DGG ( talk ) 05:06, 7 July 2016 (UTC)