User talk:Ec884814

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Ec884814, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Invitation to join WikiProject Computational Biology[edit]

Please accept this invite to join the Computational Biology WikiProject, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to computational biology.
Simply click here and add your username to the list to accept! Amkilpatrick (talk) 12:18, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia[edit]

Hi Ec884814. 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 on a bit of a run about 23andme are promotional. It is not clear if you are a fan or might have some conflict of interest. In case it is the latter, 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, Ec884814. 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. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests[edit]

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. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. 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. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with 23andme, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), if it is relevant 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) 18:07, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jytdog:No I do not have any conflicts of interest with this company. I am editing the page as a part of a final project and competition for a class at my university. It is very hard to find sources concerning the topics I want to elaborate on on this page that are not from the company because they report so much on their pages, and are essentially not research articles such as those from PubMed but are also from a well known and credible news source. If you have any advice let me know but I must keep editing the page, and I think the information I am adding is important and good, even if it is not from a source that is considered good enough for Wikipedia. ec884814 16:52, 19 Apr 2018.

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 (see WP:THREAD) - 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 to whom and when.

Please be aware that threading and signing are fundamental etiquette here, as basic as "please" and "thank you", and continually failing to thread and sign communicates rudeness, and ventually people may start to ignore you (see here).

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) 21:23, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for disclosing that you are working on the page for a class. What matters in Wikipedia are Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Please be aware that your class obligations are external to WP; you are in the same situation with respect to WP as say, a person working in PR for a company whose boss tells them to go do something in WP -- in that scenario and yours, the external obligation is irrelevant here. If you do not follow Wikipedia policies and guidelines you will end up with your editing privileges restricted.

Everybody here recognizes that it takes time to learn how to edit; please do slow down and learn. I created a one-page overview that I hope you will find helpful. Please see User:Jytdog/How. Jytdog (talk) 21:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

COPYVIO[edit]

this image is going to be deleted. You cannot copy stuff from the internet and upload it to the commons. Jytdog (talk) 20:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ISCB Wikipedia competition 2018 - final stretch[edit]

Hi Ec884814, thanks for signing up as a participant in the ISCB Wikipedia competition. The period for eligible edits will end on May 25 (UTC), just over four weeks from now. On behalf of the organizers, I would like to encourage you to move forward along this final stretch of the event and finish any remaining edits: as a reminder, your claimed article is 23andMe. If you've any questions or comments, I would be happy to read them on my talk page, or on the competition talk page. Thanks, and good luck! Amkilpatrick (talk) 08:45, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]