User talk:Gallium31

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File:GaMaltolate.gif listed for deletion
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Proposed Image Deletion
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Trigeminal neuralgia
Thank you for your edits on TN. However, the source you used is a case report, and medical content on wikipedia needs secondary or tertiary sources (see WP:MEDRS for more info). Thanks, Lesion  ( talk ) 09:24, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Gallium31. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Gallium maltolate, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies. Note that Wikipedia's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Yobol (talk) 18:12, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

November 2014
Your recent editing history at Trigeminal neuralgia shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you get reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the article's 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 BRD 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.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Yobol (talk) 18:50, 18 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Yobol, I appreciate your enthusiasm for editing, but you are deleting valuable, peer-reviewed information. Nothing in science or medicine is ever definitively proven; progress is made by evidence being presented, discussed, and tested.  Deleting information destroys that process.  The items you deleted made no medical or scientific claims, they just reported published data from reputable sources that have been cited in secondary and tertiary sources.  Please don't deprive people of potentially useful information.Gallium31 (talk) 20:09, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice:. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:13, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You made 4 reverts here within 24 h thus are blocked from editing . When you are allowed to edit again please follow the advice you have been given Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:14, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 h for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice:. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:24, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Returning to re add the same content that got you blocked without first joining the discussion on the talk page is not cool. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 19:24, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I am not as familiar with Wikipedia editing as you are (though I do work as a professional editor), so please forgive me if I inadvertently did not follow proper protocols. In this case, I did not add back the same content.  I amended the content as was requested of me, by explicitly stating that case reports were used and by citing a tertiary source.  These changes were made to bring the material into compliance with Wikipedia guidelines.  I was not aware of how to have a discussion like this--but I'm learning!
 * You need to discuss matters here to get consensus first. If you agree to do so I an unblock you.  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 09:56, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree with the major revision made my Yobol. I have made some small changes to make the content more accurate and precise.Gallium31 (talk) 16:59, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Case reports do not prove anything. They can only generate a hypothesis. Thus "has relieved neuropathic pain" is misleading. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 10:17, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Nothing in science "proves" anything; evidence is collected that supports or conflicts with hypotheses. In particular cases, something certainly can be observed to relieve neuropathic pain: case reports can support (or conflict with) a hypothesis, not necessarily generate a hypothesis.  A controlled clinical trial is just a collection of selected case studies.  A recent reference (peer-reviewed conference abstract and poster) presents a pilot clinical trial showing efficacy of topical gallium maltolate in 14 patients with trigeminal neuralgia, but you or others apparently won't allow it to be cited here.  Please remember that gallium maltolate is a chemical compound, not an approved drug, and it's important that scientific information not be censored.  Thank you for your consideration.Gallium31 (talk) 15:12, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

COI with Gallium maltolate
One can be sure of your good intentions, but can you clarify that you have no conflict of interest (see WP:COI) on Gallium maltolate. COI might include self-citation, financial involvement with firms marketing the compound, etc. Just clearing the air is healthy. You might say something about your interests on your user page, which is presently blank. Cheers, --Smokefoot (talk) 16:05, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

I am one of many researchers who are studying the possible therapeutic properties of gallium, and I am an author on some of the cited papers. I am not associated with any company developing gallium maltolate for the treatment of cancer, though I am associated with a company that is involved with topical formulations of gallium maltolate. The phrase in question cannot, however, be a COI matter for anyone, as it refers to a published, peer-reviewed paper, by multiple authors in multiple institutions, in a respected scientific journal. All such papers must meet the COI requirements of the journal and must publicly disclose any potential COI issues. Thank you for your patience; I am not so familiar with Wikipedia, and did not know that I have a "user page"; I'll look into it! Cheers, Gallium31 (talk) 17:17, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I also publish articles.  Your comments are frankly not reassuring.   My policy - avoid specific areas where one publish so that one minimize the possibility of COI. That policy ensures that editors are here for the right reasons - to educate, vs the usual reason, to elevate one's visibility. --Smokefoot (talk) 17:43, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

I appreciate your opinion, but I think that we must be careful not to become so cautious that valuable information is lost to the public. The most informed people on a subject will, of course, also tend to be the ones most likely to have published and been otherwise involved with the subject. I think it would be a mistake to exclude them (including you!) from contributing to Wikipedia in the very fields for which they are most qualified to contribute. In the world of science, citing one's own publications should probably be minimized as a matter of modesty, but it is not a COI matter. Also, I think it best if editors are presumed innocent rather than presumed guilty. Posting on Wikipedia to elevate my visibility never occurred to me; if I wanted a lot of visibility (and money), I wouldn't be involved in fairly obscure scientific research. Thank you and best wishes, Gallium31 (talk) 18:32, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I have heard all that before. I was fortunate to learn enough chemistry so that I do not need to write about my research specialties.  Check out my hall of fame User:Smokefoot.--Smokefoot (talk) 14:05, 18 August 2017 (UTC)