User talk:Origami99

February 2021
Hello Origami99. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Origami99. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Blablubbs | talk 15:38, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello Blablubbs,

I hope this is the right way to respond to your message, I am new editing Wikipedia, so I am not sure. I am a colleague of Dr. Zigmond's. We are not sure who started his bio page, but some of the information was/is incorrect. For example, he was originally listed as a neurologist. However, even though his academic appointment was in a department of neurology he is a basic scientist (PhD neuroscientist).

Dr. Zigmond asked me if I could help him to correct the errors on his page. I am in the process of doing that and adding other information about him to provide a more complete profile. I will cite references for all assertions (Such as his leadership roles, etc), but these changes are happening slowly as I am disabled.

I have no financial ties to Dr. Zigmond, and neither Dr. Zigmond nor I are promoting any product or services.

Lastly, my apologies for making a few trivial edits before responding to your message. I did those prior to seeing your message. I hope this clears up the situation. He has asked me, in particular, to edit the list of articles by him, and I would like to do that today, if possible. Origami99 (talk) 15:10, 28 February 2021 (UTC)Origami99


 * Hi Origami99, thanks for your answer and sorry for my late reply, I only saw this now. Given your close connection to the subject, you should disclose this conflict clearly and not edit the page directly; instead, you should file edit requests on the article's talk page – there's a handy wizard to do that at WP:ERW. Please see our simple guide for COI editors for more information. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Blablubbs | talk 21:43, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Please note as well that bibliographies should generally only include the most notable works; the rule of thumb is to include the 5 most highly cited papers; I have cut down the list and done this now. Blablubbs | talk 21:53, 10 March 2021 (UTC)