User talk:Philintheblanks

Your submission at Articles for creation: VirtaMed (July 24)
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Lapablo (talk) 22:03, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Lapablo, thanks for your quick review and it’s unfortunate that you perceived this as advertising. Wikipedia has pages for many companies that make medical simulators, including Laerdal, Gaumard Scientific and Simbionix. I was going to start working through creating the missing pages, no intent to advertise and as you see from this draft, well referenced to independent sources. Philintheblanks (talk) 12:27, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: VirtaMed (November 17)
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 DGG ( talk ) 00:40, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: VirtaMed has been accepted
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Thanks again, and happy editing! SL93 (talk) 17:37, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

January 2021
Hello Philintheblanks. 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:Philintheblanks. 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. MrOllie (talk) 22:51, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello MrOllie. Thank you for your message and for sharing your view. As a medical doctor in training, I have no financial affiliation to my edits (not editing about my employer or health system) but I do like the topic of medical education and the contribution of various societies: ISAKOS, AANA, etc. Your subsequent edits have removed these references to medical education / surgical training and therefore reduced the information available on Wikipedia. I think you have rather overextended by removing such sections rather than simply removing references to simulation companies. Philintheblanks (talk) 03:12, 20 January 2021 (UTC)