User talk:Paul E. Simmerly

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– the WikiProject Medicine team Jytdog (talk) 05:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi
Hi Paul. I see you have an interest in EPO, research being conducted around it, and litigation around it.

Please do take some time to read the two welcome messages above. The topmost one is generally guidance on how to edit. The second one is more specific guidance on editing about health.

For a general overview of how Wikipedia works, please have a look at User:Jytdog/How, which I wrote to help new editors wrap their heads around what we do here, how we do it, and how things got that way. WP is "open" but there is a big learning curve and everybody who edits is obligated to learn and follow the community policies and guidelines. Please take your time. Jytdog (talk) 05:18, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

One more note
This edit was.. startling, here within WP.

I want to make sure you are aware, that one of our most important policies concerns editing about living people. Please make sure you read WP:BLP and especially see WP:BLPCOI.

We take this policy very seriously. Disputes about living people have been to our "supreme court", called Arbcom, so many times that there are what we call "discretionary sanctions" about them. Basically this means that everybody is obligated to follow the policies and guidelines here strictly when they edit about living people. I am giving you notice of those discretionary sanctions here:

Jytdog (talk) 05:24, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia; username
I just had time to more carefully review the content you added here and here, which I have moved to the talk page (it is now at Talk:Epoetin_alfa).

That content references an attorney named Paul E. Simmerly, which is the same as your username.

With respect to Wikipedia's WP:USERNAME policy, specifically WP:IMPERSONATE, would you please review that section and take one of the actions advised there? If you don't we may need to soft-block this account until the issue can be resolved. Thanks.

If you do happen to be the real world Paul E. Simmerly, I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below. This is a separate but possibly related issue to the one above.

Hello, Paul E. Simmerly. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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).

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Comments and requests
Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do.

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. As mentioned above, you are editing here under the name of a real world person, and once we resolve the IMPERSONATE issues, that will be somewhat resolved, but we would still need you to explicitly declare your relationship with Paul E. Simmerly, if there is one. Would you please disclose any such relationship?

After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens. In the meantime, hopefully you are reviewing the orientation materials I provided above. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 05:58, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... Wikipedia: I have now received some seven emails from you about the Epoietin alfa article to which I contributed over the past month. Tonight I wrote an article about the Lance Armstrong case, which was completely factual, and derived from all kinds of news sources. No one can dispute what I wrote. Yet you chose to remove it! Who exactly is disputing what I wrote and why? You talk about conflict of interest? Dr. Sandra Juul, whose research is financed by Big Pharma? Johnson & Johnson whose drug Procrit has killed half a million people? The law firms who have opposed me and who have committed perjury in doing so? I fully expected this kind of thing. I have read these seven emails and have no idea how I can respond. I am Paul E. Simmerly and that is who I claimed to be when writing these changes to the Epoietin alfa article. Why are you questioning that?! Of course, you have no phone number available to call about these matters,

And another thing - are you suggesting that I have a conflict of interest in writing what I have submitted? Well, who doesn't??? I believe that EPO is the deadliest drug in the history of the world, so I guess you could say I have a conflict of interest of some kind.What I wrote about Dr. Sandra Juul and her work with premature babies was from the website of her employer. Exactly what do you contend was inaccurate? Everything I have stated about litigations and arbitrations is the truth and I can provide you with boxes of evidence supporting everything I have stated; evidence that Johnson & Johnson has gone to great lengths to hide and that its executives have perjured themselves to do so. Is Wikipedia now the tool of Big Pharma? Can Wikipedia now be called the "fake news" of the encyclopedia format?

PAUL E. SIMMERLY 14418 S.E. 2th Street Bellevue, WA 98007 (425) 830-8218 Paul E. Simmerly (talk) 11:17, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Paul E. Simmerly (talk) 11:17, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi Paul. If you have received emails, it is because you have your preferences are set to receive emails. You control preferences by clicking where it says "Preferences" at the top of the page, near the right side. The email preferences are at the very bottom of the first tab - uncheck the boxes "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" and "Email me also for minor edits of pages and files", and this will stop happening.


 * You have seen that you can edit here on this page. Please do reply in the sections in the above. Please do take your time and read the messages in those sections, before you do.  Please do read User:Jytdog/How which I wrote very much for people like you - who come here and are in a hurry.  Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 14:17, 20 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, Paul. In addition to what Jytdog noted, I just wanted to observe that you can respond to messages on your talk page by clicking the ‘edit source’ button, although you should not remove messages from other users.  - zfJames Please ping me in your reply on this page  (chat page, contribs) 01:53, 21 April 2018 (UTC)