User talk:Scientrep

Welcome!
Paid Disclosure: I am being compensated by scientist and entrepreneur, Sam Molyneux, to post his personal profile on Wikipedia, as an encyclopedic contribution to Wikipedia. He already has his business profile posted on Wikipedia known as, Meta. Because he is notable (as is indicated on the profile) people a sure to do a search on him. The proposed article is strictly that type of neutral information to assist in any encyclopedic search. I will be doing a series of articles for him, of which this neutral piece is just one. For the total series of 4 articles I will be paid approximately $700 Cnd. He asked me to do this for him, as he tells me he is not a writer. Please inform as to the next step. Thank you.

The article proposed for Wikipedia is attached below:

Sam Molyneux Wikipedia Page

Scientist and entrepreneur, Sam Molyneux was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1980. He grew up in Lawrence Park, a suburb of Toronto and attended Northern Secondary High school. He completed his Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biochemistry, at Queen’s University (2000 – 2005) and went on to study Medical Biophysics, (2006 – 2013) at the University of Toronto, where he also became a cancer researcher at the Ontario Cancer Institute at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, under senior scientist, Dr. Rama Khokha. The years spent combining genomics and big data analysis revealed inefficiencies in scientific research. In 2010 Molyneux and his engineer sister, Amy, founded one of the early AI companies in Toronto, Meta Inc., a platform for scientific literature that creates broader access to scientific discovery in real time. By 2016 Meta had analyzed over 26 million scientific papers, including papers dating back to the 1800s, and profiled 14 million researchers. After learning of the contribution Meta has made to scientific research, Mark Zuckerberg acquired the company under the Chan/Zuckerberg Initiative in 2017. Molyneux managed CZI for two years before departing on another venture. Media and Publications

Meta was recognized as one of the Top 10 Innovations of 2014 by The Scientist Magazine, and has been written about in MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, The Economist, Fortune, ReCode, Engadget, Wired, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, NewsWeek, and Communications of the ACM among others. Meta's acquisition by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was covered in more than 160 news and magazine outlets.

Molyneux's research has been published in Nature Genetics, Nature Cell Biology, Science Translational Medicine, Cancer Cell, PNAS, and JCI, among others.

He is a frequent speaker on scientific information and technology for good, and for three years, on AI for Good at the United Nations. Honours and Awards Molyneux is the recipient of sevral honours for his work in both scientific research and in business, and most recently was awarded Canada's Top 40 Under 40. Sam was named #20 on Fast Company Magazine's 100 Most Creative People in Business in 2017. In 2016, he was the winner of the Martin Walmsley Fellowship Award. Prior to that, he won the Banting & Best Doctoral Fellowship.


 * You need to follow the steps outlined below in the "Paid editing" section. Your draft above would be totally unacceptable without reliable independent sources and it is not appropriate to post it here. Please also be advised that Wikipedia does not host "profiles". Theroadislong (talk) 23:31, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Scientrep! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Happy editing! &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 09:59, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Scientrep. 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Theroadislong (talk) 19:28, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Paid editing?
Hello Scientrep. 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:Scientrep. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 19:32, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Return the money
Clearly, you have no idea how to create a Wikipedia article, let alone four. I recommend you return the money and apologize for wasting his time. If you insist on persisting, then understand that Wikipedia's criteria for notability for a person is that several people independent of the subject have published at length about the person. What the person has published does not count. What the person tell you does not count. Published interviews do not count. David notMD (talk) 07:57, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Some general advice on editing
You might want to do a dry run through the "game" called Adventure. It's basically a gamified simulation of Wikpedia editing.

Then you might want to find some subject that you have absolutely zero financial, emotional, or other interest in that almost certainly meets Wikipedia's "notability" guidelines. Maybe there is a "red link" in one of the pages about Olympic Games - most if not all Olympians are considered "notable" except in rare cases where there is almost zero media coverage of them (hey, it's possible for an Olympian to fail WP:GNG and but for his being an Olypian fail all other Notability criteria, but I haven't seen it happen). Maybe there is a national elected lawmaker that somehow never had a page written about him. Taking the time to write one or two articles like this and getting them up to WP:C-class or better would help you learn not just the mechanics of Wikipedia, but also its policies, guidelines, procedures, and social norms.

Yes, you will be doing this "without pay" but welcome to the club. Besides, it's more fun when you aren't being paid - you are free to say "to heck with this topic, I'm going to write about something that has easier-to-find reliable-source, independent-source references instead." davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  22:30, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Where on Talk pages
When posting content on a person's (or article's) Talk page, first select "New section" from the top menu, then create a Subject/headline in the narrow rectangle, and the content of your message in the large rectangle. The places your comment below the bottom of all other comments. Remeber to sign by typing four of ~ at end. Yes, what you put on your User page is sufficient. You can delete your older content there. There is a template for declaring PAID, but what you did is enough. David notMD (talk) 16:09, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The ~ should be on a key to the left of the numbered keys. If not (really?), then click on Special characters in the menu bar about the comment space and find it there. David notMD (talk) 16:14, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Paid declaration
Your first paragraph on your User page is sufficient to declare your paid status. OK to delete the other paragraphs. Also, Wikipedia allows editors (within certain limits) to delete content on their own Talk page. This means content will not be visible if an editor goes to the Talk page. However, the deleted content can still be seen if an editor opens View history while at the Talk page. An example of an exception would be if an Administrator has blocked an editor, as that would need to stay for the duration of the block.

Leave a note on my Talk page if you want me to look at a draft before you submit it. And yes, properly formatted refs place a superscripted number in the text of an article and the ref information with a hyperlink (if available) in the References section. Ref creation that does not have a hyperlink is allowed. Example would be to a book or to a pre-internet newspaper artocle. David notMD (talk) 08:55, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

References 2
Regarding references: in the body of my article, there are a number of publications mentioned that covered my subject. Do I cite them in the article or only cite them as part of a list in the References section? In other words, do I have to cite them twice?
 * When you create a reference in the text it automatically shows up in the references section. No content is actually typed under References. David notMD (talk) 01:04, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Reference Section
Good to know that the reference section comes up automatically. Thanks. I have been making hyperlinks. When are citations necessary? The difference between the two and I hope saving by pressing the "publish page" doesn't mean it will be published, or does it? Is there another way to save? Scientrep (talk) 05:00, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
 * "Publish changes" is save. Wikipedia uses this to indicate that content saved to drafts, sandboxes, etc. can be seen by other editors who look for it, even though invisible to searches from outside (Google or Bing) or from using Search Wikipedia within Wikipedia. David notMD (talk) 16:09, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
 * If I look at all of your contributions I see nothing other than your Talk page and Teahouse, my Talk page and the Talk pages of a couple of other editors, so no idea where you are working. David notMD (talk) 16:11, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

competence is required
You say that Sam Molyneux will be paying you approximately $700 Cnd for creating 4 articles. Does he realise that you have ZERO idea what to do here I wonder? Theroadislong (talk) 16:25, 22 December 2020 (UTC)