User talk:Healthinnovation


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April 2012
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See also WP:COI, which appears to apply. --Ronz (talk) 06:53, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

As you can tell by my username, I am quite interested in healthcare and specifically, innovation in healthcare. I created a Wikipedia account to begin to contribute in this content area. Having seen lots of complaints that people put work into it only to have it removed, I decided to post a few links & then return to add more textual content & references if those links were not removed. There are huge gaps on several pages where ideas & concepts have applied to healthcare (such as building science, human factors engineering, biomimicry, and others). I linked an external link to the National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare & was shocked to see that removed on the grounds of WP:COI. It is the largest contributor to human factors engineering research as it applies to healthcare in the entire country. Now, I am not a human factors engineer, nor do I work for them, but anyone in healthcare can see that human factors engineering is going to dramatically change the world of healthcare & patient safety. I am a new Wikipedia contributor, and this is disheartening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.94.199 (talk) 11:06, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response.
 * Your edits were not removed because you have a coi, or because anyone feels you have a coi. I've struck out the single sentence that mentions it. I'm happy to explain exactly why I thought it important to add that brief addition to a standard warning. We can also go into the details of the warning itself if you'd like.
 * I'll give you some information on how to get started with Wikipedia. --Ronz (talk) 14:46, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Getting started with Wikipedia
There's recently been a great deal of effort put into making Wikipedia more accessible to new contributors. I don't keep up with it, but I encourage you to look around to discover all the information available. I do know of two very useful resources that I wish I had been given when I was first starting here: this essay on the difficulties of starting out and The Missing Manual. --Ronz (talk) 14:55, 16 April 2012 (UTC)