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  Hello, DavidAllen,TheBMJ. 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. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Proposed deletion of Peter Ashman edit

Hello, DavidAllen,TheBMJ. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Peter Ashman, for deletion because it's a biography of a living person that lacks references. If you don't want Peter Ashman to be deleted, please add a reference to the article.

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GMGtalk 15:58, 7 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

This was a promotional bio, appropriate to your web site. WP is an encyclopedia , and the style is different--different to the extent that if it looks like it would work as a web page, it is unacceptably promotional here. Refer to people by their Last name, not their first name. Don't use unsourced superlatives. Don't how great the journal is when you're discussing the publisher or editor--the journal has its own article. So does the trade association. Don't use PR jargon, e.g. "led the growth of its journals portfolio". Never write without giving explicit sources. Don;t use a close paraphrase of your own web site, or take phrases from it to cut and paste into an article. Ashman is important and deserves an article. If I had the time, I'd write it.

But as it stood, I had to delete it for being fundamentally promotional,and because it was essentially a copybio. DGG ( talk ) 05:06, 10 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

I am proposing to have another go at creating a wikipedia page for Peter Ashman using the copy below. I will also note this fact on DGG and GreenMeansGo talk pages.

Peter Ashman (born 13 October, 1960) is a business leader in the Science Technical and Medical (STM) publishing sector. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of BMJ, healthcare knowledge provider and publisher of the weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, The BMJ.

Education Ashman studied at Spencer Park, London, 1971-77 Career Ashman's career in scholarly publishing has focused on science and medicine for nearly three decades. It has comprised leadership positions in diverse functions including sales, marketing, publishing and general management at a number of the most prestigious academic publishers in the world. From 1991, Ashman worked with the Current Science Group In London, before moving to the US as Vice President of The Lancet. In 2001, Ashman joined Nature Publishing Group as Publishing Director, where he launched and managed many high impact, scientific and medical journals.

Ashman joined BMJ in 2007 as Publishing Director, where he was initially responsible for a portolio of 20 scholarly, specialist journals which has since grown to over 70, including GUT, Heart and Thorax. In 2015, Ashman was appointed Director of Learning and Publishing, expanding his responsibilities to include BMJ Learning and OnExamination in addition to the Journals portfolio and BMJ Careers. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the company in January 2017. Other Peter has been Chairman of Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers - the largest international association for scholarly and professional publishers since January 2015.

He also served on the Board of the STM Association, (the leading global trade association for academic and professional publishers with 145 members in 21 countries), from 2009-2014.

From 2014-2017, Peter was Trustee of MedFash, an independent charity dedicated to quality in HIV and sexual healthcare.

Disclosure of employment edit

 

Hello DavidAllen,TheBMJ. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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I know this may seem a little bureaucratic, because in your case the username does make it self-evidencet. But at the moment, such is the rule.
Much more important, is not to write in the manner of a press release. Anyone may edit, if what they produce is suitable for an encyclopedia. I'm giving you a formal warning. DGG ( talk ) 05:06, 10 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

December 2017 edit

  You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising. DGG ( talk ) 05:07, 10 December 2017 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Ashman (March 28) edit

 
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Contributions to The BMJ violate WP:NOR edit

Hello David,

This is a friendly heads-up that your recent contributions to The BMJ are technically in violation of Wikipedia:No original research.

Take care.--Jay D'Easy (talk) 16:21, 6 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello Jay, Just saw this yesterday. I THINK the only change I made was to update the Impact Factor of The BMJ in two places on this page. Is that the change you were referring to? Not sure tho' how that squares with the 'No original research' criterion. What am I missing here? Best, David

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