User talk:LeadSongDog/Archives/2010/July

Your "monster COI" comment
I suspect you may be partly right. I've cautioned the editor concerned, who appears to be inserting content and citations from a string of publications from a single publisher, UBM Medica, into numerous medical articles. While somewhat noissome, I don't think it seriously compromises the content, which can easily be sourced elsewhere in articles indexed on PubMed. I'd like to take a wait-and-see approach with the editor, as it could simply be that he has a bundled group of e-magazine subscriptions and is making a good-faith contribution with the sources he has available. LeadSongDog come howl!  03:23, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I should have bothered to look up Lynnflint's contrib list as you did . It may be, as you suggest, merely somebody in the biomed IT business who is also altruistically putting into WP the press-releases and new info that comes across their desk. In which case it's not the worst thing in the world, but will necessarily suffer the same kinds of biases that all abstracts and press releases do (and even some peer reviewed stuff) which is that it tends to reflect the views of people with financial incentives. Agree that it merely requires keeping an eye on. Of course in the med profession and med research, we're all used to it. I suspect it also taints some physics research also, no? Though not as badly (since a larger percentage of that is gov-funded). S  B Harris 01:52, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : LII (June 2010)
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 19:17, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Automated reply?
Your reply appears automated. The links on which you base your objection to my clarification of wording were from the version with the unclear wording - I did not change them and therefore suspect you are not reading the material prior to criticizing.

Is this accurate/mistaken?BurntSynapse (talk) 19:57, 27 July 2010 (UTC)