User talk:Eric Yarnell

January 15 Seattle meetup
Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:23, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

User categorization
Greetings, Eric Yarnell! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Washington and removing your name from the Wikipedians/Washington page. The page will be deleted when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedians/Washington page? Thanks!!

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Speedy deletion nomination of Kathy Abascal
A tag has been placed on Kathy Abascal requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Removing Speedy at Kathy Abascal
Hi there Eric Yarnell! I saw that you added a hangon tag to a page which you created, Kathy Abascal. This is good, but in the process you removed the tag requesting deletion under CSD A7. Even though there is a hangon on the page, the deletion template should remain there. But don't worry, this doesn't mean that the page is going to get deleted. Make sure you edit the talk page of the page nominated for deletion, located at Talk:Kathy Abascal, administrators will look at your reason why the page should remain before they decide what to do. Thanks - SDPatrolBot (talk) 16:14, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kathy Abascal


The article Kathy Abascal has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Not notable enough for an article by the criteria of WP:PROF

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Peer review invitation
Hello,

I am editor-in-chief of a project in development in Wikiversity called Wikiversity Journal of Medicine (more information at Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/About).

Considering your expertise in both medicine and publishing, I'd very much appreciate if you did a peer review of an article that was recently submitted to this journal:
 * Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

This is essentially a shortened version of the Wikipedia article on that subject, in own words. It encourages the creation of similar summaries intended for introductions to other articles as well.

The peer review is preferably written in the corresponding talk page, and should include a declaration of any conflicts of interests. Comments should be constructive, include both strengths and areas for improvement, and be referenced whenever possible. Otherwise, the journal has no strict rules regarding the structure and length of a peer review. Still, more guidelines for peer reviewers can be found at: Wikiversity Journal of Medicine/Peer reviewers.

We prefer peer reviews to be returned within 3 weeks, and appreciate in any case a reply regarding whether you are interested or not in this contribution.

Best regards,

Mikael Häggström (talk) 15:17, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:BastyrUnivSeal.png
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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Eric Yarnell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Bastyr University, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
 * instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or 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 familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Delta13C (talk) 13:09, 12 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Dear Eric, I have added a COI template to the talk page of Bastyr University that specified you have a COI. It would have been nice you had done this yourself, since the COI notice I added here to your talk page was made over three weeks ago. Please be mindful of the COI guidelines. Happy editing! Delta13C (talk) 06:38, 3 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry Delta13C. I am not on Wikipedia that often so didn't see your note. I was not familiar with the COI policy so didn't know how to make such an indication. You are correct and I am chagrined. It won't happen again. It is just frustrating that the Bastyr University page is so very poorly done and lacks correct information. I do want to say that the edits I made really had nothing to do with me or my position in the university and that they were entirely factual and correctly cited. Nevertheless I was wrong.


 * You are welcome to point out the problems you see on the article's talk page, where you can engage others who work on the article. Delta13C (talk) 18:15, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * EDIT: I forgot to mention that you can read this: Template:UserboxCOI, which will instruct you how to self-identify as having a COI. Delta13C (talk) 18:18, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: William Belfield has been accepted
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Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, an open access peer reviewed journal with no charges, invites you to participate
Hi

Did you know about Wikiversity Journal of Medicine? It is an open access, peer reviewed medical journal, with no publication charges. You can find more about it by reading the article on The Signpost featuring this journal.

We welcome you to have a look the journal. Feel free to participate.

You can participate in any one or more of the following ways:
 * Publish an article to the journal.
 * Sign up as a peer reviewer of potential upcoming articles. If you do not have expertise in these subjects, you can help in finding peer reviewers for current submissions.
 * Sign up as an editor, and help out in open tasks.
 * Outreach to potential contributors, with can include (but is not limited to) scholars and health professionals. In any mention of Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, there may be a reference to this Contribute-page. Example presentation about the journal.
 * Add a post-publication review of an existing publication. If errors are found, there are guidelines for editing published works.
 * Apply to become the treasurer of the journal
 * Join the editorial board.
 * Share your ideas of what the journal would be like in the future as separate Wikimedia project.
 * Donate to Wikimedia Foundation.
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The future of this journal as a separate Wikimedia project is under discussion and the name can be changed suitably. Currently a voting for the same is underway. Please cast your vote in the name you find most suitable. We would be glad to receive further suggestions from you. It is also acceptable to mention your votes in the email list. Please note that the voting closes on 16th August, 2016, unless protracted by consensus, due to any reason.

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September 2018
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Withania somnifera, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. ''JACM is a journal with dubious alt med content. It is widely viewed as spam. Please review WP:MEDRS and the quality of sources defined in WP:MEDASSESS. '' Zefr (talk) 16:08, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Characterizing a medical journal as "spam" to me reveals your bias. This journal is not "spam." Further, you do not cite any references to support your contention that it is "widely viewed" as "spam", which is of course defined as sending of unwanted electronic messages. JACM does not engage in spam and I don't think anyone views it as "spam." There may be those who view it as biased. However, you have also contributed to the impossible Catch-22 situation for those who wish to study so-called "alternative" medicine. We are supposed to study it, but if we do publish our results, it is viewed as "dubious." Because for a while many journals would simply not accept such research out of their own bias against "alternative" medicine, people within this world set up their own journals such as JACM. But doing so is viewed as dubious. So there is no way to do research on "alternative" medicine or have journals that focus on this content without being dubious. Finally, citing self-appointed experts who criticize "alternative" medicine, particularly one critiquing a single possibly flawed article within this journal, does not seem to be a very strong basis for condemning an entire publication. Again, many conventional medical journals (most notably perhaps the Lancet's publication of the now retracted paper on MMR supposedly causing autism, which arguably created a massive wave of anti-vaccine sentiment that has harmed many children who weren't vaccinated and which has cost hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on studies to refute the fraudulent claims in the paper they published) have published really damaging articles. Why should they not be viewed as dubious alt med content providers and not reliable sources?
 * Because JACM historically and routinely publishes articles of low- to non-credible quality which objectively is pseudoscience and with an impact factor of 1.5, unacceptable for medical content in an encyclopedia. Please follow WP:MEDRS in your editing for Wikipedia. You can state your case, if you wish, at WT:MED. --Zefr (talk) 19:57, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Impact factors have been criticized on many grounds (example http://www.texilajournal.com/blog/journal-impact-factor/; https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/09/11/062109). The BMJ-published journals Injury Prevention, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Postgraduate Medical Journal, and Acupuncture in Medicine all have similar or lower impact factors as JACM (https://www.bmj.com/company/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ACFrOgDrdntVOujQdl1AYznplKGJBMzsCWMO8_3rlFk__0oe2ra6usZiahxOyXizeTFlzoVBP3i5Hr3TlUGcgi5uLkYlFcLqFc9iil_8QDqc2KPCw5TxeTSNM11J70E.pdf) I will discuss further at the page you recommend.

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Eric Yarnell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page [[Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine]], you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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

No one has ever paid me in any way, shape, or form to edit Wikipedia.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. As someone with a financial stake in CAM products and CAM publications, you have a conflict of interest here. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:57, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

I have no financial stake in JACM. If you wish to see my 1% ownership stake in Wild Brilliance Press, a publisher of some textbooks in the field of natural medicine, as a COI for editing about JACM then there you have it. My ownership stake in Heron Botanicals is already disclosed and long has been on my user page. I do not see how that is relevant to JACM. You are right I should have acknowledged that on my edit of the Withania page, but it came up as an incidental issue and nothing planned, and I really don't think about my company when doing such editing I think as an expert in clinical herbal medicine.

November 2019
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July 2020
Your recent editing history at Bacopa monnieri shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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Rather than just rule lawyering and hiding behind a "good reference," address the content of my comments! You do not appear to have knowledge or understanding of the law and regulations the regulate dietary supplements in the US. The actions taken by the FDA against dietary supplement companies are about the fact that it is illegal to make drug claims about dietary supplements in the US without going through a regulatory process. The letters you reference are about the failure of these companies to go through this process. The FDA is not making a judgement that bacopa has no activity or is fraudulent as you seem to be implying. Rather, they are just telling companies to stop making claims that they haven't justified. This is not material that is relevant to an encyclopedic entry on bacopa.

For comparison, the FDA has issued warning letters to pharmaceutical companies about drugs they make for all kinds of various issues (manufacturing problems, illegal marketing, illegal drug claims, etc.). There is no reason Wikipedia should cite these letters related to the drug itself. This doesn't mean the drug has some inherent problem. The letters should be cited at best in a Wikipedia article about the companies in question to show potential problems with that company. But of course there are no Wikipedia articles about drugs citing such regulatory letters because that doesn't make any sense!Eric Yarnell (talk) 18:53, 25 July 2020 (UTC)