Talk:David E. Olson

Conflict of interest

Hello HHA LTP, it appears that your account is an WP:SPA that has primarily edited this draft in addition to the company Olson founded (see Draft:Delix Therapeutics) and the field of study that Olson works in (see Psychoplastogen, which appears to be a word coined by Olson). You've also disclosed on your user page that you work in "chemical and molecular neuroscience." If you have any connection to David E. Olson you should disclose that WP:COI here on the talk page as well as Draft_talk:Delix_Therapeutics. Your username also sounds like an WP:ORGNAME, what does HHA LTP stand for? You've also used plural and possessive pronouns to refer to yourself and these Wikipedia pages on your talk page—"Thanks for restoring our draft. We made a lot of edits." There is WP:NOSHARING of accounts on Wikipedia and you do not WP:OWN any Wikipedia pages—even if the page is about you. TipsyElephant (talk) 12:33, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

@TipsyElephant: looks like this one fell through the cracks. I usually post an informal COI notice if warranted, at the user's talk, while undeleting a page. I see that the draft creator did have COI disclosures at their user page, which they then removed for some reason. We can advise the user on the COI and username further based on their response. Jay (talk) 13:31, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi @TipsyElephant and @Jay,

I am sorry for the delayed response but I had meetings and work priorities. Hopefully I addressed all the concerns below. Please let me know if I missed anything.

I was originally unclear on exactly what you meant by COI. For some reason, I thought you meant that some type of “controversy” or other opposing points of view copy need to be added to the article regarding David E. Olson and his discoveries. My mind must have been in a state of multitasking where I had a brain freeze. I did change the disclaimer on my talk page when I first created my account as I came to a point where I believed that there is no conflict of interest. Meaning that just because I personally know someone/briefly met them doesn’t mean I work for them or need to disclose a COI statement, so I removed the COI disclosure and images, and simply left it as "I work in the field of chemical and molecular neuroscience". If I should revert it back in any way, please advise.

Please note that I am relatively new to Wikipedia and am still learning the correct protocols. I created my account with the intent to write several Wikipedia articles regarding pyschoplastogens and the companies and individuals that work on developing them. I started with pyschoplastogens, David E. Olson, and Delix Therapeutics. I included David E. Olson and Delix Therapeutics since David is the individual that coined the term “pyschoplastogen”. After I first created drafts for these 3 potential Wikipedia articles, I was inundated with work (my full time job) and unfortunately didn’t have the time to further contribute towards any of them at the time.

Please note that in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoplastogen article, I had some other companies listed within the “See also” section but was told that they should not be included in such a section until there is an actual public Wikipedia article for each of them. I removed them from the public view. You should be able to see this history at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psychoplastogen&type=revision&diff=1088463199&oldid=1088382825.

Regarding the usage of “our”, that is a habit I realize I will need to change when contributing to Wikipedia. In my work, I have become very used to writing and saying “our” or “we” in emails, speech, and in presentations even though I am the one that did the work at hand.

Regarding my account name, it’s my initials (HHA) coupled with “LTP” which stands for “long term potentiation”, a synaptic plasticity reference. Thought it would be a fun, cheeky name to use. HHA LTP (talk) 22:15, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi @TipsyElephant and @Jay,

No rush to review or respond but I am going to go ahead and resubmit this article as AfC, especially as I am pretty sure there is already going to be a long queue of pending submissions waiting for review.

In the meantime, please let me know if you think I need to make any edits to this article. Thanks again for your time. HHA LTP (talk) 21:17, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

@HHA LTP: I'll take a look at it tomorrow if I get a chance. TipsyElephant (talk) 22:06, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

@HHA LTP: I've taken a look at the article again. Personally, I think I would decline it again, but I'll let other reviewers with more knowledge of this particular subject make that call. I would argue that the Forbes article written by Will Yakowicz is the only source that contributes to notability and that the majority of your sources are still self-published, primary, or at least not independent of David E. Olson. I'm not familiar with many of the awards, which may be my lack of knowledge in this particular subject. However, a quick look at some of the sources for these awards and the fact that there aren't Wikipedia pages for most of these awards makes me suspicious that they aren't very notable awards (he hasn't won well known awards like Nobel Peace Prize or something like that). Perhaps you could ask for assistance or further evaluation at WT:MEDICINE or WT:CHEMISTRY. TipsyElephant (talk) 13:10, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Olson is able to separate...

I've removed the sentence "Olson is able to separate the hallucinogenic effects of psychedelics from the rapid and sustained changes in the neuronal structure and function." because it's unclear what exactly it's saying. Is Olson the only person in the world that can do this? Was he the first person in the world that did this? How is he doing it, with tools and measurements? With the power of his mind? What does separating the effects from the changes in the neuronal structure even mean? Is this a literal, physiological separation or a separation of classifications? That sentence could mean so many things and it's so vague that it's really not clear on what it's trying to say. I don't see any immediately obvious source associated with it so I can't clarify it myself, so I removed it. If sourced, can it be rewritten in a way that makes it more clear and a little less technical? - Aoidh (talk) 19:45, 14 September 2022 (UTC)