User talk:JessUTS

Potential Conflict of Interest
Hello, JessUTS. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Bryce Vissel, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Your edits Give suspicion of possible close connection and a potential conflict of interest.. In your edits you have linked primary sources of UTS itself, primary source and unreliable, its the University of technology for which he works and is currently employed.. Further sources were still linked to that official websites, and because of which we can not use it as a reliable gesture for a prominent source.. Even inserting a copyrighted image by UTS itself.. You used an overtly promotional unencyclopedic tone, as well.. So, please disclose your COI if you have one.. thanks -- 182.58.185.242 (talk) 05:19, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for this info. I've read up on the guidelines and will make another attempt to get it right this time.

Some proposed changes
Information to be added or removed: Bryce Vissel is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is also the Director of the Centre for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM) which is dedicated to helping those suffering from debilitating conditions of the brain and spinal cord.

Career After being awarded his PhD in medical genetics from the University of Melbourne, Professor Vissel joined the Garvan Institute’s Neuroscience Division. He was subsequently awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council CJ Martin Fellowship to pursue neuroscience research with Professor Stephen Heinemann at the Salk Institute. During his decade at Salk, Professor Vissel pursued seminal studies describing molecular mechanisms that regulate synaptic function, and the role of these mechanisms in behaviour, learning and memory, and neurological diseases. He also received a Human Frontiers Award and a Fulbright Award. In 2002, Professor Vissel returned to Garvan, taking up a position as Head of the Neurodegenerative Diseases Group before being recruited by UTS. Professor Vissel and UTS established the CNRM in 2017. Incorporating facilities in Botany and St Vincent’s Hospital, the Centre focuses on research of the brain and spinal cord. Under Professor Vissel’s leadership, the CNRM’s Brain Regeneration Program has shown that repair appears possible in the Ca1 and CA3 regions of the hippocampus, the brain’s memory centre, within specific parameters. The CNRM team is continuing this research, which has potential to impact treatment of a range of diseases through stimulating the brain’s regenerative mechanisms, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other devastating conditions. Professor Vissel was also instrumental in bringing UCLA-based scientist Professor Reggie Edgerton’s pioneering work on spinal cord injuries to the Australia, where they plan to conduct the first neurostimulation trials in the Southern Hemisphere. Professor Vissel is currently Chair of the Advisory Board of Cellmid Ltd; he was a member of the Board of Parkinson’s NSW, and a medical/scientific advisor to Dementia Australia.

Explanation of issue: This page was incomplete and missing some key information on Professor Vissel and his work. References supporting change: JessUTS (talk) 06:26, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Reply 25-JAN-2019

 * Please make your request at the talk page of the article in question. Regards,  Spintendo   13:47, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Suggest you don't edit your employer's page
Hi JessUTS, and welcome! I see that someone has already notified you of the conflict-of-interest guidelines at WP:COI. You might also want to read the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. While it is possible in some instances to edit articles where you have a conflict by following the guidelines, it's quite a difficult task if you're not familiar with a lot of Wikipedia policies around sourcing, neutral point of view, etc. in addition to the WP:COI guidelines.

Reading the description on your user page—"I work for Professor Vissel and one of my tasks is to update his Wikipedia page"—it seems to me that you've been assigned a task that presents an inherent conflict. From the viewpoint of Wikipedia policy, this is pretty similar to a PR firm being assigned the task of placing a paper in Nature for the manufacturer of, say, a tCDS device. It's not that Nature/Wikipedia shouldn't publish that material, but it's a dubious short cut of the processes that ensure the publication's integrity.

My recommendation is that you tell Bryce Vissel that his request isn't appropriate, and that he can't ask a UTS employee to edit the page. If you still want to try to expand the page, then the lowest-risk approach would be to request that someone else expands the article. To make it easier for them, you could create a "userspace" draft, (e.g. at User:JessUTS/Bryce Vissel draft) and then ask someone to review it through Feedback or Articles for creation.

Alternatively, you can write it yourself. In that case, I do recommend that you pay scrupulous attention to the WP:COI guidelines. Meantime, if you want to edit any other articles where you don't have a conflict of interest, you're very welcome! Rupert Clayton (talk) 03:35, 26 January 2019 (UTC)