I work in Healthcare and have various Pharma Companies as clients (meaning of course I am conflicted from directly editing drug/heath related articles, so I do not do this!) I am very interested in your user account, aims and the comments below.
It is great to see the aim of increasing quality in Wikipedia health articles. The challenge I have is one of transparency. The fact your account is a group one to start with and does not provide details of who your individual contributors are, which companies they work for or are affiliated to etc does limit transparency. Would you be able to provide more information on this please? Ideally on your user page.
One specific question: I notice that you have edited an article on IMS Health. Do any of you work for or are you affiliated to IMS health in any way?
Thanks for providing any additional information!
Garymonk ( talk) 14:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
I have not heard of this organization. First of all we do not really allow group accounts.
Here are a few pages your group needs to familiarize themselves with
Would be happy to discuss further. Best Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 04:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Doc, Thanks for your note and the links. We typically stay away from editing the pages to avoid conflict of interests unless there is no response from the main contributors. (We get paid for consulting and training we provide hospitals, universities and pharma companies on how to use Wikipedia ethically and also legally). We get in touch with experts like you if a healthcare related page needs correction. So you might not see us editing pages. Certainly familiar with the links you have sent us. The reason we formed the group is to provide a bridge to the entities to ETHICALLY fix legitimate errors on healthcare pages. As you know hospitals and companies do not get involved in providing the wealth of information they have about some major topics, notably pharmaceutical products, fearing backlash. Some are paying unknown agencies to promote marketing material, which is not good for the Wikipedia community. Will be glad to work with you and other docs in the community. Hope to meet you soon in person soon at a conference. -- WikiCorrect-Health ( talk) 12:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
It was a good reference that popped up yesterday. We can remove if you feel it doesn't provide value to the page.-- WikiCorrect-Health ( talk) 12:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi WikiCorrect-Health! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. |
Hello, WikiCorrect-Health, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.
One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)
Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
talk pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
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Blue Rasberry
(talk)
16:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello! In New York City Friday 30 May - Sunday 1 June Wikiconference USA will be held as a national United States Wikipedia meetup hosted by Wikimedia New York City and Wikimedia DC. All are welcome to attend. Scholarship applications to cover travel expenses are accepted until the end of March and presentation submissions are requested until that time but can be accepted until closer to the conference.
Since you said "Most of us speak at Wikipedia conferences about the importance of accuracy in healthcare related Wikipedia pages. Come meet us at the next Wikipedia event near your city", I thought you might like to attend. What Wikipedia conferences have you already attended? Have we met? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:56, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "WikiCorrect-Health", may not comply with our
username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".
Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jytdog ( talk) 01:07, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Please read WP:COI and especially the section about editing Wikipedia for pay. You must disclose your employer, your client, and your affiliation, when you edit Wikipedia for pay, in the ways prescribed in the Terms of Use. There are other guidelines at WP:COI for editors with conflicts, please do mind them. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 01:09, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
@ WikiCorrect-Health: Just to counterbalance Jytdog's bold accusations, while you may be in violation of a legal agreement with the Wikimedia foundation, and you may well be editing in direct contradiction to the strong encouragement that people with a COI not directly edit related pages, and you are almost certainly in violation of the username policy, most of us do not have Jytdog's vitriol, and he is likely in violation of some Wikipedia policies as well, specifically WP:CIVIL and WP:DBN. 0x0077BE ( talk · contrib) 15:40, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
And you edited the TMS article here. Please fix the username violation on this account before you begin working here. The account had been deleted and we undid that to give you a chance to fix the username issue. Please do not abuse our efforts to work with you nicely. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 13:31, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Last month, an editing block was placed on this account by another site administrator, because the account name you are using is a clear violation of Wikipedia's username policy. I lifted that block, because you had requested a username change, and it appeared that you were making at least some effort to comply with Wikipedia's policy. (The new username that you had requested was also a violation of the username policy, but at least you had stopped ignoring the issue. That discussion is archived at Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Unfulfilled/2014/November#WikiCorrect-Health → SocialFromIMS.)
To be clear, the original administrator's block will be restored if you continue to edit without dealing with the username problem. While you have been pointed to the relevant policy page several times in the past, here it is one last time:
See, specifically, the sections regarding
TenOfAllTrades( talk) 14:33, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi I changed the name to Protein1EFN today. Seems like it has been accepted. We'd also like to know if it's advisable to create new accounts for our other editors. This account has been used by only one person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.44.245.104 ( talk) 20:40, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
I work in Healthcare and have various Pharma Companies as clients (meaning of course I am conflicted from directly editing drug/heath related articles, so I do not do this!) I am very interested in your user account, aims and the comments below.
It is great to see the aim of increasing quality in Wikipedia health articles. The challenge I have is one of transparency. The fact your account is a group one to start with and does not provide details of who your individual contributors are, which companies they work for or are affiliated to etc does limit transparency. Would you be able to provide more information on this please? Ideally on your user page.
One specific question: I notice that you have edited an article on IMS Health. Do any of you work for or are you affiliated to IMS health in any way?
Thanks for providing any additional information!
Garymonk ( talk) 14:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
I have not heard of this organization. First of all we do not really allow group accounts.
Here are a few pages your group needs to familiarize themselves with
Would be happy to discuss further. Best Doc James ( talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 04:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Doc, Thanks for your note and the links. We typically stay away from editing the pages to avoid conflict of interests unless there is no response from the main contributors. (We get paid for consulting and training we provide hospitals, universities and pharma companies on how to use Wikipedia ethically and also legally). We get in touch with experts like you if a healthcare related page needs correction. So you might not see us editing pages. Certainly familiar with the links you have sent us. The reason we formed the group is to provide a bridge to the entities to ETHICALLY fix legitimate errors on healthcare pages. As you know hospitals and companies do not get involved in providing the wealth of information they have about some major topics, notably pharmaceutical products, fearing backlash. Some are paying unknown agencies to promote marketing material, which is not good for the Wikipedia community. Will be glad to work with you and other docs in the community. Hope to meet you soon in person soon at a conference. -- WikiCorrect-Health ( talk) 12:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
It was a good reference that popped up yesterday. We can remove if you feel it doesn't provide value to the page.-- WikiCorrect-Health ( talk) 12:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hi WikiCorrect-Health! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. |
Hello, WikiCorrect-Health, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or any other editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.
One firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)
Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
talk pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on
my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}}
before the question. Again, welcome!
Blue Rasberry
(talk)
16:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello! In New York City Friday 30 May - Sunday 1 June Wikiconference USA will be held as a national United States Wikipedia meetup hosted by Wikimedia New York City and Wikimedia DC. All are welcome to attend. Scholarship applications to cover travel expenses are accepted until the end of March and presentation submissions are requested until that time but can be accepted until closer to the conference.
Since you said "Most of us speak at Wikipedia conferences about the importance of accuracy in healthcare related Wikipedia pages. Come meet us at the next Wikipedia event near your city", I thought you might like to attend. What Wikipedia conferences have you already attended? Have we met? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:56, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "WikiCorrect-Health", may not comply with our
username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Trammel Museum of Art". However, you are invited to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Mark at WidgetsUSA", "Jack Smith at the XY Foundation", and "WidgetFan87".
Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Moreover, I recommend that you read our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please create a new account or request a username change that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Jytdog ( talk) 01:07, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
Please read WP:COI and especially the section about editing Wikipedia for pay. You must disclose your employer, your client, and your affiliation, when you edit Wikipedia for pay, in the ways prescribed in the Terms of Use. There are other guidelines at WP:COI for editors with conflicts, please do mind them. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 01:09, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
@ WikiCorrect-Health: Just to counterbalance Jytdog's bold accusations, while you may be in violation of a legal agreement with the Wikimedia foundation, and you may well be editing in direct contradiction to the strong encouragement that people with a COI not directly edit related pages, and you are almost certainly in violation of the username policy, most of us do not have Jytdog's vitriol, and he is likely in violation of some Wikipedia policies as well, specifically WP:CIVIL and WP:DBN. 0x0077BE ( talk · contrib) 15:40, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
And you edited the TMS article here. Please fix the username violation on this account before you begin working here. The account had been deleted and we undid that to give you a chance to fix the username issue. Please do not abuse our efforts to work with you nicely. Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 13:31, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Last month, an editing block was placed on this account by another site administrator, because the account name you are using is a clear violation of Wikipedia's username policy. I lifted that block, because you had requested a username change, and it appeared that you were making at least some effort to comply with Wikipedia's policy. (The new username that you had requested was also a violation of the username policy, but at least you had stopped ignoring the issue. That discussion is archived at Wikipedia:Changing username/Simple/Unfulfilled/2014/November#WikiCorrect-Health → SocialFromIMS.)
To be clear, the original administrator's block will be restored if you continue to edit without dealing with the username problem. While you have been pointed to the relevant policy page several times in the past, here it is one last time:
See, specifically, the sections regarding
TenOfAllTrades( talk) 14:33, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi I changed the name to Protein1EFN today. Seems like it has been accepted. We'd also like to know if it's advisable to create new accounts for our other editors. This account has been used by only one person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.44.245.104 ( talk) 20:40, 9 December 2014 (UTC)