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Large changes made by Scribista who claims to be in "collaboration with Vishva Dixit to clean up his page" Greyjoy talk 05:59, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
@ Greyjoy: I am an experienced Wikipedia editor and a paid consultant at WhiteHatWiki.com who was recently hired by Vishva Dixit, the subject of the article, to help clean up the mess created by the very inexperienced COI editor, User: Scribista. Scribista had, in fact, never done any Wikipedia editing before or since this article. I was not involved in the previous edits to this page by this user or anyone else, nor was anyone at my agency.
You have indicated in the tag you placed on the article that it requires clean-up because of the paid editor, particularly with WP:NPOV. I certainly agree. You already did some clean up. In order to facilitate the remaining work, I have carefully reviewed all 37 additions to this article by Scribista, which appeared between June 21, 2021 and June 23, 2022. I found many other items that need to be fixed.
I was hoping you might take the time to review the following requests to correct the remaining content and NPOV issues created by Scribista. I am happy to assist in any way I can.
1. In the Infobox “Awards” section, after the first three awards, and beginning with and including the fourth award ( Foreign Member of The Royal Society (ForMemRS)) please remove all the remaining awards.
Reason: The excessive detail about awards (12 of them) reads like a resume.
2. In the Early life and education section, please replace the consecutive sentences, starting with “Vishva Dixit was born…” and ending with the sentence “During medical school…”
To:
Vishva Dixit was born in Kenya in 1956. [1] His parents were both physicians, working for the British colonial authorities. [1] Dixit was interested in science from an early age, and his parents encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine. [2] He graduated in 1980 from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, becoming a medical doctor. [3] [4] [5]
Reason: Replaces unreliable sources. Removes statements not supported in reliable sources. Removes/replaces non-neutral language. Using credible primary sources to enhance secondary sources as per WP:BLPPRIMARY.
3. In the Career section (and current Academia subsection), please change the sentence:
He told Nature that he decided to pursue pathology because he has always been fascinated by death and wanted to “do something in science that would influence the lives of people.” [6]
To:
He decided to pursue pathology because he had been interested in the process of death since childhood and pathology offered more research options across medical disciplines. [2]
Reason: More closely summarizes the source. Replaces non-neutral language.
4. In the Career section (and current Academia subsection) please remove the three consecutive sentences:
Encouraged to train in research as part of the residency program, Dixit found a position in the lab of biochemistry professor William Frazier and became involved in a project on thrombospondin, a protein in the extracellular matrix. [7] The project's success a few years later resulted in a number of publications. Congruent with his research, Dixit chose to specialize in hemostasis and thrombosis during his last year of clinical training. [7]
Reason: These sentences rely on content that is the subject’s own words in a Q&A, thus not reliable.
5. In the Career section (and current Academia subsection) please replace the following consecutive sentences:
From 1986 to 1997, he was associated with the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, where he rose through the ranks from assistant professor to associate and then full professor. [7] During his early years as an assistant professor, Dixit's research focused on thrombospondin. In 1991, he changed fields and began investigating cell death, the subject in which he would make landmark discoveries and gain worldwide recognition. [7]
To:
In 1986 he joined the
University of Michigan Medical School Department of Pathology as an associate professor, eventually becoming a full professor.Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).
Reason: Replaces a primary source in the form of the subject’s own words in a published interview, with a reliable secondary sources. Using credible primary sources to enhance secondary sources as per WP:BLPPRIMARY.
6. In the Career section, under the subsection entitled Genentech please change the three consecutive sentences:
In 1997, Dixit became the Director of Molecular Oncology at Genentech, [8] a company known for focusing on high-quality research in an informal atmosphere and viewed as a cross between academia and industry. [9]
To:
In 1997, Dixit became the Director of Molecular Oncology at Genentech. [10] [5] In 2009 he led the Department of Physiological Chemistry. [11] As of 2016 he held the position of Vice President of Discovery Research, [1] and oversaw Genentech's postdoctoral program. [2]
Reason: Replaces unreliable primary sources with reliable secondary sources. Removes language not supported in reliable sources.
7. In the Awards and Honors section, please change the sentence:
Dixit is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, [12] the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, The Royal Society (ForMemRS), [13] and The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. [14]
To:
Dixit is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [15]
Reason: Replaces source that does not support the facts; eliminates excessive detail that reads like a resume.
8. In the Awards and Honors section, please eliminate the sentence:
He was also on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009 and 2020. [16]
Reason: Excessive detail. Reads like a resume. BC1278 ( talk) 21:10, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
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I am a paid editor, so I cannot make edits. I am requesting cleanup of this page so that the following header can be removed:
This article contains paid contributions. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page.
Thank you. Scribista ( talk) 05:30, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. There are corrections and updates I would request to be made for this Wikipedia page. I have a conflict of interest as an employee of Genentech, where Vishva Dixit is an employee. Please consider the following updates:
To:
In 1986 he joined the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Pathology as an assistant professor, eventually becoming a full professor. [1]
Reason: Corrects for a factual inaccuracy about the subject’s academic rank when hired by the university. Removes the source that provided the inaccuracy and keeps the source that was accurate.
In 2005, he was appointed Vice President of Discovery Research and in 2007, took over leadership of the Department of Physiological Chemistry. [2] He later became the Vice President of Discovery Research, while maintaining responsibility for the Department of Physiological Chemistry. He also oversees Genentech's postdoctoral program. [3]
Reason: The first two sentences are not reliably sourced. The third sentence repeats something in an earlier sentence. The original request edit asking for their removal was unclear and ambiguous (asked to remove 3 consecutive sentences when there were actually four), and that is probably why these sentences currently remain. All correct information is now covered in earlier sentences.
His work on apoptosis is taught in biomedical textbooks.
Reason: Sentence is not sourced.
In 2021, he was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRs). [4]
Reason: This is a significant award (with a related Wikipedia page) that is reliably sourced - though Primary, since it’s an important award, I think this should be enough. The award is already in the Infobox and I saw in a previous round an independent editor reviewing a proposal approved it for that.
He also received in 2022 the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology. [5] [6]
Reason: This is a significant award with a high-quality reliable source from the world of academia. It has a Wikipedia page.
Thank you! 40Sapir ( talk) 20:57, 2 February 2023 (UTC) 40Sapir ( talk) 20:57, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
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Large changes made by Scribista who claims to be in "collaboration with Vishva Dixit to clean up his page" Greyjoy talk 05:59, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
@ Greyjoy: I am an experienced Wikipedia editor and a paid consultant at WhiteHatWiki.com who was recently hired by Vishva Dixit, the subject of the article, to help clean up the mess created by the very inexperienced COI editor, User: Scribista. Scribista had, in fact, never done any Wikipedia editing before or since this article. I was not involved in the previous edits to this page by this user or anyone else, nor was anyone at my agency.
You have indicated in the tag you placed on the article that it requires clean-up because of the paid editor, particularly with WP:NPOV. I certainly agree. You already did some clean up. In order to facilitate the remaining work, I have carefully reviewed all 37 additions to this article by Scribista, which appeared between June 21, 2021 and June 23, 2022. I found many other items that need to be fixed.
I was hoping you might take the time to review the following requests to correct the remaining content and NPOV issues created by Scribista. I am happy to assist in any way I can.
1. In the Infobox “Awards” section, after the first three awards, and beginning with and including the fourth award ( Foreign Member of The Royal Society (ForMemRS)) please remove all the remaining awards.
Reason: The excessive detail about awards (12 of them) reads like a resume.
2. In the Early life and education section, please replace the consecutive sentences, starting with “Vishva Dixit was born…” and ending with the sentence “During medical school…”
To:
Vishva Dixit was born in Kenya in 1956. [1] His parents were both physicians, working for the British colonial authorities. [1] Dixit was interested in science from an early age, and his parents encouraged him to pursue a career in medicine. [2] He graduated in 1980 from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, becoming a medical doctor. [3] [4] [5]
Reason: Replaces unreliable sources. Removes statements not supported in reliable sources. Removes/replaces non-neutral language. Using credible primary sources to enhance secondary sources as per WP:BLPPRIMARY.
3. In the Career section (and current Academia subsection), please change the sentence:
He told Nature that he decided to pursue pathology because he has always been fascinated by death and wanted to “do something in science that would influence the lives of people.” [6]
To:
He decided to pursue pathology because he had been interested in the process of death since childhood and pathology offered more research options across medical disciplines. [2]
Reason: More closely summarizes the source. Replaces non-neutral language.
4. In the Career section (and current Academia subsection) please remove the three consecutive sentences:
Encouraged to train in research as part of the residency program, Dixit found a position in the lab of biochemistry professor William Frazier and became involved in a project on thrombospondin, a protein in the extracellular matrix. [7] The project's success a few years later resulted in a number of publications. Congruent with his research, Dixit chose to specialize in hemostasis and thrombosis during his last year of clinical training. [7]
Reason: These sentences rely on content that is the subject’s own words in a Q&A, thus not reliable.
5. In the Career section (and current Academia subsection) please replace the following consecutive sentences:
From 1986 to 1997, he was associated with the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, where he rose through the ranks from assistant professor to associate and then full professor. [7] During his early years as an assistant professor, Dixit's research focused on thrombospondin. In 1991, he changed fields and began investigating cell death, the subject in which he would make landmark discoveries and gain worldwide recognition. [7]
To:
In 1986 he joined the
University of Michigan Medical School Department of Pathology as an associate professor, eventually becoming a full professor.Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).
Reason: Replaces a primary source in the form of the subject’s own words in a published interview, with a reliable secondary sources. Using credible primary sources to enhance secondary sources as per WP:BLPPRIMARY.
6. In the Career section, under the subsection entitled Genentech please change the three consecutive sentences:
In 1997, Dixit became the Director of Molecular Oncology at Genentech, [8] a company known for focusing on high-quality research in an informal atmosphere and viewed as a cross between academia and industry. [9]
To:
In 1997, Dixit became the Director of Molecular Oncology at Genentech. [10] [5] In 2009 he led the Department of Physiological Chemistry. [11] As of 2016 he held the position of Vice President of Discovery Research, [1] and oversaw Genentech's postdoctoral program. [2]
Reason: Replaces unreliable primary sources with reliable secondary sources. Removes language not supported in reliable sources.
7. In the Awards and Honors section, please change the sentence:
Dixit is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, [12] the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, The Royal Society (ForMemRS), [13] and The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. [14]
To:
Dixit is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [15]
Reason: Replaces source that does not support the facts; eliminates excessive detail that reads like a resume.
8. In the Awards and Honors section, please eliminate the sentence:
He was also on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009 and 2020. [16]
Reason: Excessive detail. Reads like a resume. BC1278 ( talk) 21:10, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
{{
cite web}}
: |last2=
has numeric name (
help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
![]() | This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
I am a paid editor, so I cannot make edits. I am requesting cleanup of this page so that the following header can be removed:
This article contains paid contributions. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page.
Thank you. Scribista ( talk) 05:30, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
![]() | An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes. |
Hello. There are corrections and updates I would request to be made for this Wikipedia page. I have a conflict of interest as an employee of Genentech, where Vishva Dixit is an employee. Please consider the following updates:
To:
In 1986 he joined the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Pathology as an assistant professor, eventually becoming a full professor. [1]
Reason: Corrects for a factual inaccuracy about the subject’s academic rank when hired by the university. Removes the source that provided the inaccuracy and keeps the source that was accurate.
In 2005, he was appointed Vice President of Discovery Research and in 2007, took over leadership of the Department of Physiological Chemistry. [2] He later became the Vice President of Discovery Research, while maintaining responsibility for the Department of Physiological Chemistry. He also oversees Genentech's postdoctoral program. [3]
Reason: The first two sentences are not reliably sourced. The third sentence repeats something in an earlier sentence. The original request edit asking for their removal was unclear and ambiguous (asked to remove 3 consecutive sentences when there were actually four), and that is probably why these sentences currently remain. All correct information is now covered in earlier sentences.
His work on apoptosis is taught in biomedical textbooks.
Reason: Sentence is not sourced.
In 2021, he was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRs). [4]
Reason: This is a significant award (with a related Wikipedia page) that is reliably sourced - though Primary, since it’s an important award, I think this should be enough. The award is already in the Infobox and I saw in a previous round an independent editor reviewing a proposal approved it for that.
He also received in 2022 the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology. [5] [6]
Reason: This is a significant award with a high-quality reliable source from the world of academia. It has a Wikipedia page.
Thank you! 40Sapir ( talk) 20:57, 2 February 2023 (UTC) 40Sapir ( talk) 20:57, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
References