User talk:RobertAtkinson

October 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "E&#38;P Consortium", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it implies shared use. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Dorsetonian (talk) 18:49, 11 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Name has been updated to reflect individual user's name. thx RobertAtkinsonEPMC (talk) 23:50, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.  MrOllie (talk) 23:49, 17 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, sorry I'm new to contributing to Wikipedia. Which link is "inappropriate?" I noticed you reverted a number of my edits, including ones that don't link out to external sites.
 * Thanks! RobertAtkinsonEPMC (talk) 16:58, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Every edit in which you cited your organization in violation of WP:SPAM and WP:PAID (which is all of your edits so far). MrOllie (talk) 17:08, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello RobertAtkinsonEPMC. 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:RobertAtkinsonEPMC. 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) 17:08, 18 October 2023 (UTC)


 * ah, I understand. Thanks for taking the time to explain. RobertAtkinsonEPMC (talk) 17:19, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:RobertAtkinson, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 22:15, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie (talk) 22:46, 30 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Robert, again, please see WP:MEDRS. Adding text about single studies or content supported by primary sources is against Wikipedia's sourcing requirements for medical content. MrOllie (talk) 16:54, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Once again, you must read and follow WP:MEDRS if you are going to work on medical content. - MrOllie (talk) 01:00, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

Invitation
I wanted to say that a bunch of us hang out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. You're welcome to join us if want. It's a good place to ask questions about finding good sources for medical content or writing style. Feel free to put the group's page on your watchlist, or stop by to say hello some time. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:08, 17 January 2024 (UTC)