User talk:Legionella-Risk-Assessment

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Legionella-Risk-Assessment. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Legionnaires' disease, 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:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Darren-M  talk  12:11, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

→ Darren-M ] I'm confused by this, very new to wiki but want to know what it is I did that could be considered a conflict of interest? I do work within the water hygiene industry but the comments made are public domain, in the interest of the page topic and have no links or affiliation with myself or my employer. The links/cite are to overarching guidance in the public domain that help support the topic covered. Genuinely happy to receive further guidance from yourself --[[User:Legionella-Risk-Assessment|Legionella-Risk-Assessment (talk) 12:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * , Hiya. Thanks for your reply. I dropped the guidance here as an abundance of caution - we tend to see that when editors have a username that closely resembles the topic they are editing about, they may have a conflict of interest that might (consciously or subconsciously) impact the edits they make. This shouldn't be taken to be an indication that I thought any of your edits were 'incorrect' or biased. Hope that helps - and welcome to Wikipedia! :D
 * P.S. if you're replying to a particular editor and want to let them know that you've replied, type (if I'm the person you want to 'ping'), and they'll get a notification. Best,  Darren-M   talk  14:22, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
 * P.S. if you're replying to a particular editor and want to let them know that you've replied, type (if I'm the person you want to 'ping'), and they'll get a notification. Best,  Darren-M   talk  14:22, 1 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thx, good point and on reflection a bad choice of username (I'll see if I can change it) as I would have liked to see a page on Legionella Risk Assessment on the site, really surprised there isn't one at the moment. Anyway thanks for getting back to me, ironically one of the most significant human factors you try to put aside in assessment is confirmation bias, it is a good rule and I can see why you suggest caution.


 * P.S. this mark up language is going to take me sometime to get my head around. Thanks --Legionella-Risk-Assessment (talk) 15:44, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Legionella-Risk-Assessment, you are invited to the Teahouse!

 * Thx see you there --Legionella-Risk-Assessment (talk) 07:14, 2 July 2020 (UTC)