User talk:Eysen
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[edit] welcome, WP:COI, WebCite
Welcome to wikipedia! If you haven't yet, {{welcome}} has some nice starting points for new users.
Your webcite idea is interesting, but your approach here deserves some re-thinking. Based on your username and edit history, I assume you hold close relations with a Gunther Eysenbach, the inventor of [WebCite]. If so, a close reading of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest is a must before further editing here at wikipedia.
Despite initial aversion, I think a service such as webcite is likely a good idea for wikipedia to seriously consider. However, a path to such a recommendation will require time and discussion in the community. This would be a major adoption for such a large body of information.
While I agree you are one of the best folks to help facilitate webcite adoption here at wikipedia, you should remove yourself from any further editing of articles about yourself or your business. Best of luck! Stick around and help us improve the encyclopedia. Feel free to drop any questions my way. ∴ here…♠ 21:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- I want to apologize for overly aggressive opposition to your efforts in offering WebCite as a valuable service to the wikipedia community. I did a poor job of distinguishing between edits to mainspace articles in the encyclopedia and edits to policy articles. There is no doubt that edits to Web archiving, Gunther Eysenbach, WebCite, Citation, Link rot, Open access etc. were inappropriate as a conflict of interest and should be avoided by you in the future. However, I can see how this guideline should be less stringent in policy related issues. I'm glad a few other editors have jumped in at WP:CITE. I'll try to help or stay out of the way in crafting recommendations and help documentation for archiving web sources. Best of luck, particularly with Open access related issues. Thanks for all your work. ∴ here…♠ 08:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
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- Thanks for pointing out the conflict of interest policies - I agree and will in the future avoid edits in these fields as well as on my own bio. On the other hand, these are the fields I am (academically) working on, and my primary concern is the accuracy of the articles on Wikipedia. In my defense, I have no financial interests, for personal financial gain, in these areas. An overly strict interpretation of the COI policy may be counterproductive in assuring the accuracy and quality of articles in Wikipedia. Most "experts" and scientists working in a narrow field have "indirect" conflicts of interest, because they have done a lot of work in that field, so that any contribution in Wikipedia could be misconstrued as self-promotion. The recent Nature investigation on the accuracy of Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia Britannica found that very few scientists/experts actually contribute to Wikipedia, and I am not sure if that is a good thing. --Eysen 19:47, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Edit summaries
Looking through your edits, it doesn't seem like you are filling out edit summaries. Could you please do so? See Wikipedia:Edit summaries for more details. Thanks! Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) 02:32, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Open content/sources, CLINMED
I left some more comments at Wikipedia_talk:Citing_sources#Proposal_for_policy_on_freely_available_sources_--_encouraging_open_content_.26_open_access. The proposal will need a bit a revision-- as is clear by the comments.
You are welcome to drop by WP:CLINMED and hang-out at the doctors' mess. Among other things, you'll find a few T.O. docs there (User:Samir (The Scope), User:Dlodge). Stuff on writing medical articles for Wikipedia is here (Wikipedia:WikiProject_Clinical_medicine/Writing_medical_articles#References).
Any case, I hope to see more of you in the future. Nephron T|C 23:03, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] AfD notification
The article Gunther Eysenbach has been nominated for deletion on the grounds that you, as the primary author, appear to be the subject of the article. Wikipedia strongly discourages autobiographical articles (see WP:AUTO. My recommendation is that you create a sub-article on your user page, and transfer the content there. YechielMan 01:45, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] fix
I tried to summarize thi sarticle a little . I suggest you put the prev. version not here, but on a subpage; that is what is usually done as a way of dealing with an Afd. DGG 04:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] User page linked directly to encyclopedia proper
Wikipedia:User page states that user pages are not to be directly linked to the encyclopedia pages proper. Regards Mayumashu 16:16, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
