User talk:Robert M. Gordon

Welcome!
Hello, Robert M. Gordon, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
 * Introduction and Getting started
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article
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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! User:HopsonRoad 16:56, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

MMPI-2-RF edit
Hi Robert - I undid your addition to the MMPI article in the MMPI-2-RF section. Since you are a brand new Wikipedian, I highly recommend reading (or at least scanning) the articles recommended by HopsonRoad above.

In addition, it's important to read about how to handle a potential conflict of interest. The basic policy is: "Do not edit Wikipedia in your own interests or in the interests of your external relationships."

This does not mean you cannot ever cite your own publications in an article, but it does mean asking yourself something like, "What is my primary motivation for adding this reference? Does it improve the article, or am I hoping to get a high quality link to one (or more) of my articles?"

Finally, it is usually not good form to insert your own publications (or any citations) into the body of an article. Instead, use the references to support (as we do in academic writing) a statement in the article.

Having said all that, I would love to have a psychologist of your calibre and expertise (across diverse areas within psychology) join us as a volunteer Wikipedia editor! Please feel free to ask me any questions about what I've written here or anything else Wikipedia related. You might also want to join the Wikipedia Psychology Project.

Welcome! - Mark D Worthen PsyD  (talk)  18:24, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Additional helpful articles on conflict of interest
An interest is not a conflict of interest - "Conflicted editors can be an extremely valuable and largely untapped resource as they are often the most equipped and motivated to report on a given subject."

History of conflict of interest issues on Wikipedia

Best practices for editors with close associations - contains suggestions for how to edit successfully, if you have a close association or involvement with the topic you are editing.

Plain and simple conflict of interest guide - Succinct summary of the policy.