Welcome to Wikipedia from Wikiproject Medicine (also known as WPMED).
We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of content about health here on Wikipedia, pursuing the mission of Wikipedia to provide the public with articles that present accepted knowledge, created and maintained by a community of editors.
One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board!
First, some basics about editing Wikipedia, which is a strange place behind the scenes; you may find some of the ways we operate to be surprising. Please take your time and understand how this place works. Here are some useful links, which have information to help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
Every article and page in Wikipedia has an associated talk page, and these pages are essential because we editors use them to collaborate and work out disagreements. (This is your Talk page, associated with your user page.) When you use a Talk page, you should sign your name by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comment; the Wikipedia software will automatically convert that into links to your Userpage and this page and will add a datestamp. This is how we know who said what. We also "thread" comments in a way that you will learn with time. Please see the Talk Page Guidelines to learn how to use talk pages.
Feel free to drop a note below if you have any questions or problems. I wish you all the best here in Wikipedia! -- Jytdog ( talk) 01:15, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi Sarah Raremark. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. Your edits to date are promotional with regard to Raremark, and it would seem that you are signalling that you work for them via your username. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.
Hello, Sarah Raremark. 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:
In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.
Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.
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 (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).
Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. Here in Wikipedia such disclosures must be made explicitly. Would you please disclose any connection you have with Raremark and whether you are being paid to edit on their behalf? After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you more orientation to working here. Please just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Best regards Jytdog ( talk) 01:19, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
we are a group of paid health content writers which write factual information about rare diseases for Raremark. It is actually not OK for more than one person to use an account. A Wikipedia account is for one single human to use. You all will also have to be careful in various ways. I will open a new section about that, user a section called USERNAME.
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request edit}}
tag to flag it for other editors to review. In general it should be relatively short so that it is not too much review at once. Sometimes editors propose complete rewrites, providing a link to their sandbox for example. This is OK to do but please be aware that it is lot more for volunteers to process and will probably take longer.Please remove the content promoting Raremark from your userpage, User:Sarah Raremark . That content violates the WP:USERPAGE policy. Your userpage is only for telling people what you are doing here in Wikipedia, not to advertise anything external to Wikipedia.
Is there actually a company called "Raremark" btw? It seems to me that the company that runs Raremark is "ePatient Network Limited".
If that is true, what would be appropriate would be something very simple, like - "I work for ePatient Network Limited, a company based in the UK that runs a website called Raremark."
If you have any questions about making an appropriate disclosure, please let me know. You can reply here, just below this, about this topic. Thanks! Jytdog ( talk) 03:47, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
OK, so about you wrote we are a group of paid health content writers which write factual information about rare diseases for Raremark
. As I mentioned above, per Wikipedia's
WP:USERNAME policy, only one person can use an account. It is not OK to share -- every person who uses Wikipedia needs to be accountable for what they do here, and will get their own reputation here. So one person needs to be "Sarah Raremark" and everybody else needs to have their own account. It would be a very good thing, if each person made the same disclosure on their userpage, and each person included a link to all the other members of the Raremark group. I can help with that if you like.
This brings up another thing... I don't know how many of you there are, but it will not be OK for you to each have your own account and then work as a group to argue against people who disagree with what you are doing. You all will need to be careful to avoid that. It will be fine to collaborate to generate content, but if there is ever a dispute with people who are not part of your group, you need to become very self aware, and avoid acting as a "gang". We have a policy against this, described at WP:MEAT, and an "essay" advising against this, at WP:GANG. So please please avoid that kind of behavior. I hope this makes sense. If it doesn't please let me know! Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 04:26, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia from Wikiproject Medicine (also known as WPMED).
We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of content about health here on Wikipedia, pursuing the mission of Wikipedia to provide the public with articles that present accepted knowledge, created and maintained by a community of editors.
One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board!
First, some basics about editing Wikipedia, which is a strange place behind the scenes; you may find some of the ways we operate to be surprising. Please take your time and understand how this place works. Here are some useful links, which have information to help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
Every article and page in Wikipedia has an associated talk page, and these pages are essential because we editors use them to collaborate and work out disagreements. (This is your Talk page, associated with your user page.) When you use a Talk page, you should sign your name by typing four tildes (~~~~) at the end of your comment; the Wikipedia software will automatically convert that into links to your Userpage and this page and will add a datestamp. This is how we know who said what. We also "thread" comments in a way that you will learn with time. Please see the Talk Page Guidelines to learn how to use talk pages.
Feel free to drop a note below if you have any questions or problems. I wish you all the best here in Wikipedia! -- Jytdog ( talk) 01:15, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
Hi Sarah Raremark. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. Your edits to date are promotional with regard to Raremark, and it would seem that you are signalling that you work for them via your username. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.
Hello, Sarah Raremark. 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:
In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).
Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.
Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.
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 (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).
Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. Here in Wikipedia such disclosures must be made explicitly. Would you please disclose any connection you have with Raremark and whether you are being paid to edit on their behalf? After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you more orientation to working here. Please just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Best regards Jytdog ( talk) 01:19, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
we are a group of paid health content writers which write factual information about rare diseases for Raremark. It is actually not OK for more than one person to use an account. A Wikipedia account is for one single human to use. You all will also have to be careful in various ways. I will open a new section about that, user a section called USERNAME.
{{
request edit}}
tag to flag it for other editors to review. In general it should be relatively short so that it is not too much review at once. Sometimes editors propose complete rewrites, providing a link to their sandbox for example. This is OK to do but please be aware that it is lot more for volunteers to process and will probably take longer.Please remove the content promoting Raremark from your userpage, User:Sarah Raremark . That content violates the WP:USERPAGE policy. Your userpage is only for telling people what you are doing here in Wikipedia, not to advertise anything external to Wikipedia.
Is there actually a company called "Raremark" btw? It seems to me that the company that runs Raremark is "ePatient Network Limited".
If that is true, what would be appropriate would be something very simple, like - "I work for ePatient Network Limited, a company based in the UK that runs a website called Raremark."
If you have any questions about making an appropriate disclosure, please let me know. You can reply here, just below this, about this topic. Thanks! Jytdog ( talk) 03:47, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
OK, so about you wrote we are a group of paid health content writers which write factual information about rare diseases for Raremark
. As I mentioned above, per Wikipedia's
WP:USERNAME policy, only one person can use an account. It is not OK to share -- every person who uses Wikipedia needs to be accountable for what they do here, and will get their own reputation here. So one person needs to be "Sarah Raremark" and everybody else needs to have their own account. It would be a very good thing, if each person made the same disclosure on their userpage, and each person included a link to all the other members of the Raremark group. I can help with that if you like.
This brings up another thing... I don't know how many of you there are, but it will not be OK for you to each have your own account and then work as a group to argue against people who disagree with what you are doing. You all will need to be careful to avoid that. It will be fine to collaborate to generate content, but if there is ever a dispute with people who are not part of your group, you need to become very self aware, and avoid acting as a "gang". We have a policy against this, described at WP:MEAT, and an "essay" advising against this, at WP:GANG. So please please avoid that kind of behavior. I hope this makes sense. If it doesn't please let me know! Thanks. Jytdog ( talk) 04:26, 7 November 2017 (UTC)