User talk:DrJohnTire

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I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Talk:Tire Science and Technology, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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help me Dear Randy, I am a retired professional from the Tire Industry, and I have extensive knowledge of the history associated with both the Journal and the Society. I was asked to help get correct information into Wikipedia regarding the Journal of Tire Science and Technology and the Journal's sponsor: The Tire Society. I created a login and went to the Tire Science and Technology page and among the first items that were noted was to insert the template for a journal "" so I could input the information. I was trying to do that but could not figure out how to do it. I was able to see how to link the page back to the sponsoring Society's page in Wikipedia so I saved that to see how it would look.

Almost immediately thereafter I got this message from you, suggesting that I had a conflict of interest. I read the information about the aparent conflict and I don't feel that I would have a problem staying within the letter and spirit of the rules. Please HELP ME figure out HOW to accomplish the improvement of these pages.

- Dr John. P.S. I noted that many other references to tire-related pages in Wikipedia suffer from a sort of "inverse conflict of interest" in which the information is superficial and/or taken from "popular" sources such as newsmagazines rather than "technical" sources such as peer-reviewed articles. If you can help me figure out how to edit the Tire Science & Technogy page, perhaps I can help correct some of the other pages with valid technical information.

DrJohnTire (talk) 15:55, 27 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Since you were hired by them (or asked otherwise), you automatically have a conflict of interest. The whole point of Wikipedia is to use secondary sources as much as possible, i.e. magazines and newspapers. Peer-reviewed journals are also okay, but newspapers are most commonly used. You should read WP:PSCOI for more. gwickwire  talk editing 17:48, 27 March 2013 (UTC)