User talk:Kelstar

Cancer Research Institute Article

Hello- I am an employee of the Cancer Research Institute and believe you may be able to help me with what we seek. Our mission is to support and coordinate laboratory and clinical efforts that will lead to the immunological treatment, control, and prevention of cancer. I see that you are interested in the immune system, so this may interest you, too. We believe that we should have an article on wikipedia, but want to stay neutral and are not sure about who to contact to see if they can write one for us. There is already a wikipage for William B. Coley, the doctor whose principles we are founded upon, and for our William B. Coley Award for distinguished research in immunology. We are also connected with Dr. Lloyd Old, who also has a wikipage and has been a large part of CRI for quite some time. We would like to have a good and neutral article. Do you know a way we can find an editor who knows how to write articles by the wikipedia guidelines and is interested in Cancer Research and non-profits?

I apologize if this is this is the wrong place to post this request. Of so, please help me find where I should go as I am new to Wikipedia. --CancerResearchInstitute (talk) 21:55, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, since you are an actual organization, and not just an anonymous user, you should provide your official contact information, so that your request can be verified. Wikipedia needs to be careful that it doesn't deal with someone who merely claims to be the representative of an organization - if CRI is requesting an article, this needs to be verified via direct contact, for example, through a phone number or email that is posted on your organization's website.

Once we know that we're really dealing with the Cancer Research Institute, we can help you.

Or you could log on with a new account, totally anonymously, and request an article at Wikipedia:Requested articles. (I promise not to peek).

Or just write the article, and disclose the fact that you are from CRI on the article's talk page. Other Wikipedians would then check the article for accuracy.

For more information, see WP:COI.

The Transhumanist 22:11, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also

Just so you know - you should never sign your name after making an edit to an article. This is because any given article can have dozens, or even hundreds, of individual editors, and if everyone signed, then the article would quickly become an illegible mess of signatures. Information as to who made which edit is automatically tracked, and is available in the article history.

Conversely, you should always sign the messages you leave on article discussion pages or on user talk pages.

No harm done - this is just so you know. DS (talk) 04:31, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Full disclosure

Well. Hm.

So far, you're doing a pretty good job. I would suggest, however, that you go to Wikipedia:Changing usernames and switch from "CancerResearchInstitute" to, for instance, "CancerResearchInstituteEmployee" (or "Cancer Research Institute employee", or something like that); this will help make it clear that you are one individual.

Are you officially representing the Institute? DS (talk) 16:26, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another point to consider is that if you change your username to something personal, then you can retain this account should you and the CRI eventually part ways for some reason. DS (talk) 20:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cancer Research Institute Article references

Hi

We need two kinds of references.

The first kind is to prove notability. This will be from other independent articles that are primarily about the topic, so just mentioning at the bottom of a web page is not sufficient. A press release is not independent, as is the same for the organization's page. An article on someone funded by the organization would support an article on that person, but not prove notability for the organization. The association with the person does not make them notable. Things to look for would be a journal article or a newspaper article about the topic.

The second kind of reference supports the facts in this article. These should be reliable, but do not have to be independent, and so can include their own web site, or writings not primarily on the topic. You proposed refs with Forbes are OK for this purpose. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:07, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Improving Immunology Articles

Hi Kelstar, I am simply an editor who thinks some of the immunology articles on Wikipedia are far from complete and the quality can be easily improved. I'd love to do it all by myself, but it'd be even better to do it in a team, to be more efficient as well as to get a wider viewpoints (from the medical, molecular and cellular viewpoints for example). If you are interested, please go to here and just start editing. The purpose of the page (it's a new page) is simply to get everyone together and collaborate, as to ensure there's editors for different topics. I look forward to working with you soon, any help would be greatly appreciated. Kinkreet^{~♥moshi moshi♥~} 01:02, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]