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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! -- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 10:37, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out the semi-authorized experiment using an account that failed to disclose. I'm curious Please explain why you created this account. I'm in a position to reach out to one of the researchers and I'd like to understand your thinking ahead of that conversation.
Chris Troutman (
talk)
23:21, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Let me spell it out in more detail. There are former editors (some blocked or banned or even globally banned) who make a habit of creating new SPA accounts (and disappearing, sooner rather than later) showing up at ANI or similar places and citing in detail Wikipedia rules without explaining where they learned about our rules in such detail. Often their interpretation of the rules seem to be a bit off. Is there anything you can tell us about yourself that would contradict such a scenario?
You seem to be more concerned about the methods and conclusions of the paper rather than the breaking of Wikipedia rules. Why the concern about the paper's methods and conclusions. Is there any reason for us to believe that you know more about the methods than a professor at MIT? Any information about these questions would be helpful. Smallbones( smalltalk) 17:02, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
This is a friendly invitation to voice any thoughts you might have at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Paid editing experiment as a sort of followup to the issue you raised at ANI. ☆ Bri ( talk) 04:17, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. The following links will help you begin editing on Wikipedia:
Please bear these points in mind while editing Wikipedia:
The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! -- There'sNoTime ( to explain) 10:37, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out the semi-authorized experiment using an account that failed to disclose. I'm curious Please explain why you created this account. I'm in a position to reach out to one of the researchers and I'd like to understand your thinking ahead of that conversation.
Chris Troutman (
talk)
23:21, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
Let me spell it out in more detail. There are former editors (some blocked or banned or even globally banned) who make a habit of creating new SPA accounts (and disappearing, sooner rather than later) showing up at ANI or similar places and citing in detail Wikipedia rules without explaining where they learned about our rules in such detail. Often their interpretation of the rules seem to be a bit off. Is there anything you can tell us about yourself that would contradict such a scenario?
You seem to be more concerned about the methods and conclusions of the paper rather than the breaking of Wikipedia rules. Why the concern about the paper's methods and conclusions. Is there any reason for us to believe that you know more about the methods than a professor at MIT? Any information about these questions would be helpful. Smallbones( smalltalk) 17:02, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
This is a friendly invitation to voice any thoughts you might have at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard#Paid editing experiment as a sort of followup to the issue you raised at ANI. ☆ Bri ( talk) 04:17, 3 October 2017 (UTC)