GLPG783469

I made edits to a page without disclosing conflict of interest

Hi,

I am an employee at the Communications team at Galapagos NV and a new user to Wikipedia. It has been brought to our attention that some content on a Wikipedia page about one of our products filgotinib is not accurate, so I was assigned to job to correct the misinformation. Since I'm new to wikipedia, I just created an account GLPG783469 and used this account to make the edits according to the wording in the source article "FDA rejects Gilead’s filing for approval of filgotinib over toxicity concerns". However, I was only informed by my supervisor after the edits have been made that this is probably not the correct way to handle it since I'm an employee at Galapagos (who develops the product Filgotinib together with Gilead Sciences) and there's a conflict of interest that I failed to disclose. It seems that I should have used the "request edit" function and have had this change made for me.

So what I'd like to know now is that 1) if I have indeed made a mistake and if yes, is there a way to remedy my actions ? As the biotech industry is heavily regulated, we need to be transparent about our actions, therefore, I'm writing to check with you the ramifications here.

Appreciate your further instructions on this.

Best regards, Jinbo

Hello, in future please request all edits you wish to be made on the talk page of the article you have a COI with, unless the edit is reverting unambiguous spam or vandalism, spelling and grammatical fixes, or repairing broken links. Addtionally, you should disclose your paid editing per the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use, on your user page with the {{paid}} template and on the talk page of the articles you are being paid to edit with the {{connected contributor (paid)}} template. (Please remember to sign your posts on talk pages by typing four keyboard tildes like this: ~~~~. Or, you can use the [ reply ] button, which automatically signs posts.) Dylsss (talk) 17:25, 15 September 2020 (UTC)