Laurenruthfish

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Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Laurenruthfish. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. Your edit to Tipifarnib was very typical biotech marketing of the type one would expect to see a representative of Kura Oncology making. 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, Laurenruthfish. 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

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.

Comments and requests

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).

You might want to have a look at Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia and WP:Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms

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 Kura? 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 with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 03:27, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello Jytdog,

Thanks for letting me know! I'm a PR professional that works with Kura, and we're helping them to update this page. Thanks for walking me through getting this updated! Laurenruthfish (talk) 00:04, 18 October 2017 (UTC)Laurenruthfish

Thanks for replying! Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here. In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, which the Wikipedia software will render into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front of your comment, which the WP software converts into two indents, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. This also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense. And at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. That is how we know who said what. I know this is insanely archaic and unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. Will reply on the substance in a second... Jytdog (talk) 07:15, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

OK, thanks for starting the disclosure process. We need to finish that, and then I can explain how we manage COI here in WP, and then we can start talking about content. Just want to take this stepwise.

So, as a paid editor you are obligated to disclose your employer and the client. You have disclosed the client. Would you please disclose your employer/the agency? You can just reply here. thx Jytdog (talk) 07:18, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Cool. My agency is Canale Communications. Laurenruthfish (talk) 16:25, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for providing the rest of the disclosure. So you are what we call a "paid editor" so please do keep WP:PAID in mind, and that activity constitutes a conflict of interest in Wikipedia, so please do keep WP:COI in mind. The stuff below, explains what that means, concretely.

To finish the disclosure piece, would you please add the disclosure to your user page (which is User:Laurenruthfish - a redlink, because you haven't written anything there yet). Just something simple like: "I work for Canale Communications, and Kura Oncology is one of our clients. I am working on Tipifarnib on behalf of Kura, and will post other articles and clients here as they arise." would be fine. If you want to add anything else there that is relevant to what you want to do in WP feel free to add it, but please don't add anything promotional about the company or yourself (see WP:USERPAGE for guidance if you like).

I added a tag at Talk:Tipifarnib, so the disclosure is done there. Once you disclose on your user page, the disclosure piece of this will be done.

As I noted above, there are two pieces to COI management in WP. The first is disclosure. The second is a form of peer review. This piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and voilà there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary - no publisher, no "editors" as that term is used in the real world. So the bias that conflicted editors tend to have, can go right into the article. Conflicted editors are also really driven to try to make the article fit with their external interest. If they edit directly, this often leads to big battles with other editors.

What we ask editors to do who have a COI or who are paid, and want to work on articles where their COI is relevant, is:

a) if you want to create an article relevant to a COI you have, create the article as a draft through the WP:AFC process, disclose your COI on the Talk page with the Template:Connected contributor (paid) tag, and then submit the draft article for review (the AfC process sets up a nice big button for you to click when it is ready) so it can be reviewed before it publishes; and

b) And if you want to change content in any existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to

(i) disclose at the Talk page of the article with the Template:Connected contributor (paid) tag, putting it at the bottom of the beige box at the top of the page (as I noted, I already did that for you at Talk:Tipifarnib); and

(ii) propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself. Just open a new section, put the proposed content there, and just below the header (at the top of the editing window) please the {{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.

By following those "peer review" processes, editors with a COI can contribute where they have a COI, and the integrity of WP can be protected. We get some great contributions that way, when conflicted editors take the time to understand what kinds of proposals are OK under the content policies. (There are good faith paid editors here, who have signed and follow the Wikipedia:Statement on Wikipedia from participating communications firms, and there are "black hat" paid editors here who lie about what they do and really harm Wikipedia).

But understanding the mission, and the policies and guidelines through which we realize the mission, is very important! There are a whole slew of policies and guidelines that govern content and behavior here in Wikipedia. Please see User:Jytdog/How for an overview of what Wikipedia is and is not (we are not a directory or a place to promote anything), and for an overview of the content and behavior policies and guidelines. Learning and following these is very important, and takes time. Please be aware that you have created a Wikipedia account, and this makes you a Wikipedian - you are obligated to pursue Wikipedia's mission first and foremost when you work here, and you are obligated to edit according to the policies and guidelines. Editing Wikipedia is a privilege that is freely offered to all, but the community restricts or completely takes that privilege away from people who will not edit and behave as Wikipedians.

I hope that makes sense to you.

Will you please agree to learn and follow the content and behavioral policies and guidelines, and to follow the peer review processes going forward when you want to work on the Tipifarnib article or any article where your COI is relevant? Do let me know, and if anything above doesn't make sense I would be happy to discuss. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 23:01, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed description--I agree to learn/follow the content and behavioral policies and guidelines, and to follow the peer-review process going forward. To recap and get my edits approved for Tipifarnib, I first need to disclose that I am a paid editor on my own personal talk page for the Tipifarnib page. For the peer-review process, I will need to edit the Tipifarnib page once again, but instead of publishing it, I will need to use the [request edit] button so that someone can review my edits before they go live (with the knowledge that the more edits I have, the longer the review process will take).

I do have a question: Is there anything specific in the Tipifarnib article that I included that I should change before requesting edits? I'd like to expedite this process as quickly as possible, so if there is anything blaring that needs fixing/revising, I'd appreciate that insight on the sooner side. Laurenruthfish (talk) 17:59, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

For writing about health and medicine, you should review the welcome message I put at the top of your page, which discusses sourcing, sectioning, etc. The edits you proposed originally were not OK - they were (in Wikipedia) badly sourced and promotional.

Anything about health needs to be sourced per MEDRS. The business/history stuff doesn't have to be, but should be independent. (avoid company website, press releases and churnalism - avoid stock-watching blogs like The Street and Seeking Alpha; Xconomy and Fierce have good stuff and as you probably know Matt Herper writes great stuff for Forbes. That kind of trade rag stuff with actually commentary is fine. I do use press releases sometimes just for facts that are discussed in good sources (like I made use a press release for the date a deal was signed; not for the fact that a deal happened and what it meant)

For example articles... I did a bunch of work on Iclaprim which is similar to Kura's drug (going for a second bite at the apple with a new company after failing initially). Ocrelizumab is generally OK about an approved drug, if you like. Gemtuzumab ozogamicin might also be helpful (unmarketed drug - withdrawn though).

I hope that is helpful. Jytdog (talk) 01:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kura Oncology (October 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Sulfurboy was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Sulfurboy (talk) 19:06, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Hello! Laurenruthfish, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Sulfurboy (talk) 19:06, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

• holy cow we went through all that stuff above, and you submitted a draft article with one source that is a press release. That is not even trying to engage, Laurenruthfish. Going through the motions of COI management is not enough. Above I wrote:

But understanding the mission, and the policies and guidelines through which we realize the mission, is very important! There are a whole slew of policies and guidelines that govern content and behavior here in Wikipedia. Please see User:Jytdog/How for an overview of what Wikipedia is and is not (we are not a directory or a place to promote anything), and for an overview of the content and behavior policies and guidelines. Learning and following these is very important, and takes time. Please be aware that you have created a Wikipedia account, and this makes you a Wikipedian - you are obligated to pursue Wikipedia's mission first and foremost when you work here, and you are obligated to edit according to the policies and guidelines. Editing Wikipedia is a privilege that is freely offered to all, but the community restricts or completely takes that privilege away from people who will not edit and behave as Wikipedians.

Please take that seriously. There is a section at User:Jytdog/How about drafting new articles. Please review that and follow it before you re-submit. Jytdog (talk) 19:31, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Kura Oncology concern

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Your draft article, Draft:Kura Oncology

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