User talk:Richard Keatinge/Archives/2011/March 2011

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Whilst doing some research on bike helmets for my daughter, I came across this website. I note that you've cited this website, and made a lot of edits to Bicycle helmet and Bicycle helmet laws. I assume this is you and believe one of your colleagues who is also an administrator here has done the same. May I ask if you have declared a potential conflict of interest with your advocacy in this area? Wee Curry Monster talk 18:10, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I'm happy to declare that I have no interest that undermines the mission of Wikipedia. Richard Keatinge (talk) 18:55, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Richard, I noticed that on the dicussion page of Bycicle helmet laws, you stated "perhaps better suzanne10". Was that a suggestion for me to do something? Please understand that this is my first time using the wikipedia let alone putting an article on it. I am currently reading a journal titles "The effect of bicycle helmet legislation on bicycling fatalities and hope to add some info from that. Suzanne10 (talk) 19:05, 4 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks Suzanne10, I'll respond on the talk page of Bicycle helmet laws. Richard Keatinge (talk) 20:34, 4 March 2011 (UTC)


 * My concern was your use of a cite from your website to rubbish and thence remove another cite. WP:V not WP:TRUTH.  Again my question was whether you had declared any potential conflict of interest with your advocacy in this area? From WP:COI "Editors with COIs are strongly encouraged—but not actually required—to declare their interests, both on their user pages and on the talk page of the related article they are editing, particularly if those edits may be contested."  The latter part could be called into question in this case.  I really do think you and your colleague should declare a potential COI.  Wee Curry Monster talk 19:56, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I don't. Nor does BHRF need to worry about my interest in Wikipedia. As you may have noticed, the aims coincide; both spread soundly-based, well-referenced information. Neither of them pays me anything, and on BHRF I'm just one of the editorial board, not an editor of the site. Richard Keatinge (talk) 21:01, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * When editing and professional interests collide, then any potential COI should be declared IMHO. This is not an accusation, more rather that it could avoid any accusations of impropriety later.  You rubbished a source based on a paper from an organisation whose editorial board you sit on.  Surely you can see this could be called into question.  Wee Curry Monster talk 21:18, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Wee Curry Monster, I am afraid there is little chance of your being seen as an honest broker in this: it looks very much like a grudge hangover from the Gibraltar case. Richard's interest in cycle safety predates BHRF (and Wikipedia) by a good number of years - in addition to being a doctor he is well known in professional cycle safety circles in the UK and has been interviewed on radio about it. It's not a COI, it's a case of an expert editing an area of expertise. Guy (Help!) 21:30, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Why would this be seen as a grudge ? I have politely suggested that someone declare their interests for the avoidance of a COI accusation.  And I would suggest that someone else does as well.  Wee Curry Monster talk 21:36, 3 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't describe it as an "interest", but I'm perfectly happy to have my various involvements made clearer. (Public they already are - that's why I edit under my real name, and you're not the first one to have noticed.) Richard Keatinge (talk) 21:54, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that was all I was asking. It would avoid the potential for an unwarranted accusation.  I would suggest your colleague does as well.  Wee Curry Monster talk 21:57, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

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