User talk:Steven Mitchell

AfC notification: Draft:Allan Combs has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Allan Combs. Thanks! SwisterTwister  talk  04:38, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Allan Combs has been accepted
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Allan Combs
Hello, Allan Combs. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
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 * Please understand that I am not implying any wrongdoing in this message, and in fact I welcome you to Wikipedia! However, you do need to be aware of Wikipedia's policies in regard to writing an article that apparently is about yourself. Please feel free to get in touch with me at User talk:Tryptofish if you have any questions. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:18, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia
Hi Allan Combs.

We are all taking it for granted that you are indeed Allan Combs. (we are hoping you are not somewhat else who is violating our WP:IMPERSONATE policy.

So as I said, going with the flow here...

The way things work in Wikipedia you have a conflict of interest with regard to the article about yourself.

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do.

As I said, we are taking it that you are Allan Combs, so the disclosure somewhat comes with the username....but there are multiple "Allan Combs" in the world, so...

We have already added a tag disclosing that you have a COI to the article Talk page, but to finish the disclosure piece, would you please add the disclosure to your user page (which is UserAllan Combs - a redlink, because you haven't written anything there yet). Just something simple like: "I am Allan Combs, and I have a conflict of interest with regard to the article about myself and related topics" would be fine. If you want to add anything else there that is relevant to what you want to do in WP feel free to add it, but please don't add anything promotional about yourself (see WP:USERPAGE for guidance if you like - but user pages are only for discussing what you do in Wikipedia)

Once you disclose on your user page, the disclosure piece of this will be done.

As I noted above, there are two pieces to COI management in WP. The second piece is a form of peer review. This piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and voilà there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary - no publisher, no "editors" as that term is used in the real world. So the bias that conflicted editors tend to have, can go right into the article. Conflicted editors are also really driven to try to make the article fit with their external interest. If they edit directly, this often leads to big battles with other editors.

What we ask editors to do who have a COI and want to work on articles where their COI is relevant, is:
 * a) if you want to create an article relevant to a COI you have, create the article as a draft through the WP:AFC process, disclose your COI on the Talk page, and then submit the draft article for review (the AfC process sets up a nice big button for you to click when it is ready) so it can be reviewed before it publishes (too late for this on the Allan Combs article.... but now you know); and
 * b) And if you want to change content in any existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself. You can make the edit request easily -  and provide notice to the community of your request -  by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline.  I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page at Talk:Allan Combs -  there is a link at "request corrections or suggest content" in that section --  if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request.  You can also add a  tag to flag it for other editors to review.

By following those "peer review" processes, editors with a COI can contribute where they have a COI, and the integrity of WP can be protected. We get some great contributions that way, when conflicted editors take the time to understand what kinds of proposals are OK under the content policies.

But understanding the mission, and the policies and guidelines through which we realize the mission, is very important! There are a whole slew of policies and guidelines that govern content and behavior here in Wikipedia. Please see User:Jytdog/How for an overview of what Wikipedia is and is not (we are not a directory or a place to promote anything), and for an overview of the content and behavior policies and guidelines. Learning and following these is very important, and takes time. Please be aware that you have created a Wikipedia account, and this makes you a Wikipedian - you are obligated to pursue Wikipedia's mission first and foremost when you work here, and you are obligated to edit according to the policies and guidelines. Editing Wikipedia is a privilege that is freely offered to all, but the community restricts or completely takes that privilege away from people who will not edit and behave as Wikipedians.

I hope that makes sense to you.

Will you please agree to learn and follow the content and behavioral policies and guidelines, and to follow the peer review processes going forward when you want to work on the article about yourself, or any article where your COI is relevant? Do let me know, and if anything above doesn't make sense I would be happy to discuss. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 05:02, 24 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for clearing things up and making the disclosure: all is well now. Strictly speaking, having him as your thesis advisor does make for a (low-level) conflict of interest, so I will technically leave the templates there at the article talk page, but you should feel free to edit as you wish. One more thing – it's entirely up to you whether or not to post your real-life full name here. You may want to take a look at WP:Outing, and particularly the last paragraph, including the three information pages (Personal security practices, On privacy, and How to not get outed on Wikipedia) that are linked there. It's entirely up to you, but if you change your mind and would like to have the full name "un-posted", you can do that by following the instructions about "oversight" there, but you must do that pretty soon if that is what you choose to do. Happy editing! --Tryptofish (talk) 14:09, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Please also see the comment at my talk page about you needing to change your username. --Tryptofish (talk) 17:51, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

I have requested a name change... Steven Mitchell is the name change I requested (my actual name). We'll see what happens from here. Thanks for your support-- Steve Mitchell

Introduction
My name is Steven Mitchell. I took the username Allan Combs simply because I was making a page for this person and Wikipedia didn't ask for any identifying information or even an email address. Therefore, it made sense (in my brain), at the time to use this as a username. I am not Allan Combs. Allan Combs, PhD has been a professor of mine and is overseeing my PhD dissertation (in part), but we are not personal friends and I was not paid to draft this page for him; instead, I chose to do this page because of Dr. Combs' contributions to academia. This is not a conflict of interest. All of the resources have been appropriately sourced and the page I created Allan Combs has been vetted multiple times.

I am sorry for the confusion about my chosen username.

Respectfully,

Steve Mitchell

Here is my new and improved username
Are we good now? :-) Steven Mitchell (talk) 19:18, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes! Thanks for taking care of that. Actually, you now no longer need the message that I had moved from here to your user page, to be there. I'll revert my change now. { --Tryptofish (talk) 21:50, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Steven Mitchell, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Society for Consciousness Studies have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:22, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Julie Navin Combs


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