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COI tag

On public Facebook post, one of the researchers mentioned by name in this page writes: "When you set up a Wikipedia page you can make it look like you discovered whatever it is that the page is about... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(internet)" -John Bryden. When another commenter asks for clarification, he replies: "We created that article. If you scroll down you'll see it's heavily based on our research." - John Bryden. I took this as admission that there's a COI issue with this page and I'd be remiss if I didn't tag it as such, particularly as the post was public. However, I'm not familiar enough with this research topic to make the article more balanced, so I've just tagged it. Cheers. Mvolz (talk) 11:42, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

(I should mention that in general I don't have a problem with researchers adding their own work to pages when they have an expertise in the subject, but that it should be done in a balanced way and an effort should be made to maintain NPOV, like you would in a peer-reviewed review article.) Mvolz (talk) 11:44, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

@Mvolz: This just came to my attention. Yes indeed, this Wikipedia article has been written by several authors from different backgrounds and presents a neutral point of view. It has been heavily edited since we worked on it. We did add a summary of a paper I worked on, but we highlighted that paper due to its importance as a method for identifying how digital tribes form at large scale on the Internet, and scientifically quantifying what they are. I would invite others to discuss more on this topic if they feel that our work is over-represented. JohnBryden (talk) 16:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Last August is a long time ago now, so my memory is vague. I tried to search for the Facebook comment, but I couldn't find it. If I remember correctly, the original post was about scientists using Wikipedia to overstate the importance of their work, and my comment was intended as a tongue-in-cheek joke using irony to itself overstate the importance of my own work. It is clear from the history of this article that it has always stated "The concept [of digital tribe] is closely related to social networking, and dates back to at least 2003, when Tribe.net was launched." We never claimed to have discovered Digital or Internet Tribes. My quote was taken out of its context, which was a casual Facebook conversation. JohnBryden (talk) 16:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

In light of the above, I ask that the COI tag is removed. Also, I do feel this page could do with some tidying up, so if there were an appropriate tag for that, I think it would be a good idea to add it. JohnBryden (talk) 16:08, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

if tribal roots are the route

The Road ahead by William Gates 08:40, 22 May 2021 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Autonomous agent 5 (talk • contribs)