User talk:Mark Nelson

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome!  Esowteric + Talk  10:58, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello, Mark Nelson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Mark Nelson (scientist), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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;
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution 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. Thank you. Gab4gab (talk) 02:34, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Some editing I've done
I was unaware when I started of the conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you Gab4Gab for bringing them to my attention. I have been editing some pages because I wanted to improve their factualness, add to the discussions contained therein, to add more scientific references when articles were heavily depend on only popular press articles. In future I will endeavor to put suggestions on those pages for other people to incorporate or not, as they see fit. I do not receive any money from the enterprises I once ran (such as Wastewater Gardens International) nor for my work at Institute of Ecotechnics and its research consultancies. Regarding the Biosphere 2 website, the history is complex and my edits have been designed to add more information about its early history and to balance some of the interesting topics, such as the validity of differing approaches to science or to flesh out important research carried out during the years Columbia University operated the facility. Adding more scholarly articles, books and scientific journal papers enables the interested reader to get a fuller view of the project.
 * Thank you for responding regarding conflict of interest. One thing that may seem helpful that should be avoided is adding facts and insights based on personal knowledge that aren't supported by published sources. Verifiability is one of the core content policies of Wikipedia. Thanks for your contributions and your commitment to follow the conflict of interest guidelines. Gab4gab (talk) 17:56, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * COIs aside, the enhancements are pretty professional, thanks.  Esowteric + Talk  18:43, 10 January 2018 (UTC)