User talk:RobotResearcher



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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, RobotResearcher. 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 conflict of interest 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:


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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Code Pending (talk) 19:25, 4 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I do not believe I am violating any conflict of interest policies. I am a university-affiliated researcher making edits on subjects specific to my area of expertise (human-robot interaction). The pages I have contributed to are not directly linked, affiliated, or about my university. The terms of use state "However, if that professor is simply paid a salary for teaching and conducting research, and is only encouraged by their university to contribute generally without more specific instruction, that professor does not need to disclose their affiliation with the university." I was encourage to contributed generally but was not specifically instructed on which pages to edit. Furthermore, Rule 8 of the Wikipedia rules for editing states "Writing about a subject about which you have academic expertise is not a conflict of interest; indeed, this is where we can contribute to Wikipedia most effectively." As a university researcher with a PhD and an active member of the human-robot interaction research community, I believe this line applies to me and therefore I am not in violation of any terms of service or conflict of interest. If I am mistaken please provide additional information. RobotResearcher (talk) 20:08, 4 June 2021 (UTC)RobotResearcher
 * Hello, I'm BlackcurrantTea. I suggest that you slow down, and refrain from adding social robots to any more articles until you're more familiar with editing Wikipedia. I noticed your edits because six of nine articles in an error-tracking category were ones you had edited; common mistakes for new editors, but in an uncommon number of articles. Had Code Pending not left you a note about Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline, I would have. Whilst you're approaching the subject from an academic background, the result - lengthy additions on the topic to several articles in a single day - brings to mind someone who has One Favourite Topic, and who will do their best to connect anything at all to That Topic. Imagine someone who tries to bring every conversation, completely unrelated though it may seem, around to the mineral content of soil: Music? Undoubtedly the composer was influenced by seeing the particular plants which grow in that particular soil. Astronomy? The night sky's redder because of the iron from a dust storm. And so on. It's best not to be that person when editing Wikipedia. I didn't examine your edits in detail, but I did see errors you can easily fix:
 * References follow punctuation, except for dashes and, in some cases, parentheses.
 * There's no space between the punctuation and the reference, or between two references.
 * When adding a doi, omit everything before the 10. See examples here.
 * Have a look at the Introduction to Wikipedia and the Manual of style. If you have questions, visit the Teahouse, our help forum for new editors. I'll add your talk page to my watchlist, though my schedule can be unpredictable, and it may take a while for me to respond. Please take a break, perhaps a week or two, before you add anything more about social robots to any more articles. There's no deadline. Thanks. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 04:57, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the feedback. This was helpful and I can understand your point. I will slow do as you suggested and work to stay more "on topic." And sorry about the formatting issues. My fault, I was used to other formats and did not adjust to wikipedia's standard practices, I will correct those formatting by other spend more time lurking until I get a better feel for the community practices. RobotResearcher (talk) 16:07, 7 June 2021 (UTC)RobotResearcher