User talk:Maryflo

Potential conflict of interest
I work for the American Medical Association in the division of Continuing Physician Professional Development (basically continuing medical education). There is a wikipedia page on "Continuing medical education" that I would like to edit. Firstly to correct some inaccurate information, but I would also like to expand it with information that that is of interest to physicians and others about this topic. The AMA owns one of the credit systems used in physician CME, and the owners of the other two systems (the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association) would also like to add information so the page can be more useful. The information is available on our respective websites, but isn't always easy to find and it would be useful for others to have it all in one place.

Is this permissable within Wikipedia guidelines? I have read your policies about neutral point of view and others, and will certainly adhere to them. What is the best way to go about it?

Thank you for any assistance.

Maryflo (talk) 17:47, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking a responsible attitude to the COI issue. As well as WP:Conflict of interest, there is useful guidance at Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest. In summary, the best thing to do, rather than edit an article directly, is to propose a change on the article talk page, declaring your interest, and see whether there is WP:Consensus from other editors. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:53, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Welcome!

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