User talk:Vallenderm

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Editing of topic to which you are associated
re British Pharmacopoeia, please can I ask you to pause for a moment. Whilst I appreciate from this edit] that you state "Expanded by the Editor in Chief of the British Pharmacopoeia Mrs Matilda Vallender (matilda.vallender@mhra.gsi.gov.uk) to reflect the current rage of products and services provided by the BP", normally one is not meant to edit articles about topics or products one is personally involved with, please see the guideline Conflict of interest. I appreciate though your openness in indicating who you are :-)

You obviously will have detailed knowledge on the BP, and thus will be a great source for improving both this and a number of other wikipedia articles. Let me highlight some policies, else your edits potentially risk being reverted as biased or promotional (for the BP). The issues are that all information in an encyclopaedia must be WP:Cited from WP:Reliable sources in order to WP:Verify. As an involved party, you risk being seen as lacking objectivity and WP:Neutral point of view.

As an example, the current version includes the sentence "Now used in over 100 countries with exposure in most continents of the world, the British Pharmacopoeia sets the standard for pharmaceutical compliance across the globe". Now whilst this may be true (and indeed as a Brit I too would like to think so), but without citing a source for the opinion that it "sets the standard", this seems like promotional WP:Peacocking, and I suspect our American editors will have a differing view on the relative merit of their own pharmacopoeiae :-)

In general it is probably better for an involved party to discuss possible missing information on an article's talk page, and then let another unconnected editor decide whether or not to update the article; again please look at the help offered at Conflict of interest.

Please do not take any of this to be trying to bite the newcomer, we really do welcome your help and expertise. If you need any help with wikipedia, marking up text or adding citations, do please ask. I will for now step back and let you have a chance to review the above points and consider how you wish to complete your current updating of the article, before returning to copyedit the wikistyling and review the changes later :-) Yours David Ruben Talk 18:40, 18 January 2007 (UTC)