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Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi CandiceTHOPP. Thanks for declaring your conflict of interest with regard to Jose Baselga in this edit note. 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.

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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.

You have disclosed your relationship to Jose Baselga which is great. I also added a tag to the article's talk page (every article has an associated Talk page, that you can access through a tab near the upper left corner). So disclosure is done.

With regard to the peer review piece, going forward, please do not edit the article directly, but rather offer suggestions at the article's Talk page. You can do that easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request. Thanks. You can reply here if you have any questions or want to discuss anything, or you can ask at the article Talk page. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 16:03, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello Jytdog- I am trying to submit general edits to build the page? Is there any easy way to provide all the information and someone else do it? I do not work directly with Dr. Baselga I work with his lab as the AA for the dept. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CandiceTHOPP (talk • contribs) 16:25, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Candice. Thanks for clarifying - you absolutely have a conflict of interest in Wikipedia for anything related to Baselga and indeed anything related to MSK. The instructions above tell you how to make suggestions for content on the Talk page related to the article - please let me know if anything there does not make sense to you. Finally, please "sign" your posts, by typing four tildas at the end of any post you add to a Talk page, like this ~~~~ - the Wikipedia software converts those four tildas into a link to your username and a date stamp. Thanks Jytdog (talk) 16:38, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Ok so I got the signature thing (there's hope) CandiceTHOPP (talk) 16:43, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for helping. Are you saying go to Jose Balega's page and click Talk above on the upper right and then just submit the updates CandiceTHOPP (talk) 16:43, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

OK, the other convention we have for talk page discussions (along with signing), is indenting, so that comments are threaded. To indent one time, type one colon : at the start of a comment; in order to put two indentations, type two colons at the start ::, etc. This shows that you are responding to the comment just above yours. If you want to also respond to the same comment that the person above you is responding to, you would do the same number of indents as they do. The combination of indenting and signing is how we keep track of who is responding to what. I've added three colons to your comment above and I have four in front of this one. See how that works? Sorry to belabor all this, but indenting/signing are as basic etiquette here as please and thank you. Jytdog (talk) 18:13, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

responding now to what you wrote (see? same indenting, as I am responding to your comment, not my own)... Yes exactly - you should propose content on the article Talk page. You got it. Please note that there are key content policies here (not optional things) that have to be met. Everything needs to have a "reliable source" per our policy, WP:VERIFY - nobody can add just content willy-nilly to any article. Also, content has to be what we call "neutral" (which is not what you think it means) - this is described in the WP:NPOV policy. Also, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia - not a newsletter or directory nor a vehicle for promotion. (described in WP:NOT) So all content here should be stuff that will matter 10 years from now, not trivia. Finally, because Baselga is a living person, our policy about content about living people applies, which is WP:BLP. We can work out this stuff on the article Talk page, but please don't be surprised if you meet various objections to the content you want to add. But if somebody (including me) tells you, "we can't do that because of the XXXX policy, please actually read that policy and think about it, OK? And if you don't understand please ask. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:20, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm back, thank you so much and my apologies I am sooo new to this and I only know what you explain so i'm really grateful for your help. I have a profile picture for Baselga that I would like to submit and I want to list his Awards/ Memberships in addition to adding more with respect to who he is (it would be the same items I tried to add that were rejected) how do I go about citing when I am using his resume which includes what he states to be accurate?.CandiceTHOPP (talk) 19:09, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi Candice, for statements by Baselga about himself, only some things are allowed. "Baselga was born in NYC" (or whatever) is okay, unlikely to be challenged, whereas "Baselga has 315 nobel peace prizes" is NOT okay, because -- if he said such a thing -- Baselga would be claiming something about what other people (the nobel committee) did, right? See WP:ABOUTSELF. Also see WP:SPIP, it has to be just-the-facts, no promotional stuff, no puffery, stay neutral in tone, that sort of thing. Second thing, to upload pictures, see these helpdocs, WP:Uploading_images. I have added some of our conversation from earlier today over at Talk:Jose_Baselga, so that folks can get an idea about where you are at in the process of becoming a wikipedian. What is BioSketch? Please remember that everything on wikipedia has to be specially licensed aka copyright-by-the-contributor. Make sure not to cut-n-paste stuff that you cannot legally re-license; it is best to write your own sentences, understand? Speaking of which, if you want to access some of the 'deleted' material you already typed at the article, here are some links to your earlier work, so you can copy and paste the contents (or just see the changes) as needed. Barcelona,[1] introPara,[2] Barcelona#2,[3] reformat,[4] awards,[5] but as jytdog points out you need newspapers/magazines/journals/books/somesuch that prove the awards were given (and the award itself wiki-noteworthy) see WP:NOTEWORTHY. Thanks for your patience, you'll get there. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 19:34, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Candice, here is an example citation that would verify an award. University website talking about the award.[6] Place giving the award talking about the award.[7] Wikipedia page on the place giving the award: Spanish Royal Academy of Pharmacy aka Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia. Those three together are pretty convincing. Another way to do it, is to get a newspaper/magazine/similar article, which mentions that Baselga won that particular award. But we cannot just take it from his resume, because it's a claim about what the *RANF* did, not merely a claim about Baselga per WP:ABOUTSELF. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 19:41, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

I just submitted edits and I cited the urls for each Award and Membership please let me know if this can now stay I've been unsuccessful every step of the way thank you. CandiceTHOPP (talk) 20:41, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

A Bio sketch is a resume in the medical field they refer to resumes as Biosketches and Curriculum Vitaes. Thanks you CandiceTHOPP (talk) 20:42, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

OK, I think that wraps things up here - you are grounded now about COI and you have the basics of interaction here - we can discuss content at the article Talk page. I may come back to open new discussions if non-content issues arise. (Article talk pages are pretty strictly for discussing article content. User Talk pages (like this one) are for everything else, including "how wikipedia works" kinds of stuff as we have been discussing) Jytdog (talk) 20:45, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry Got it! CandiceTHOPP (talk) 20:56, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:CandiceTHOPP/sandbox

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. sst✈^(conjugate) 08:30, 3 February 2016 (UTC)