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SPA /COI edit
Hi DMFPitts your edits to date have been about ZIOPHARM Oncology.This makes your account what we call a "single purpose account" (please see WP:SPA) I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some questions for you below.
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Question edit
Wikipedia is a scholarly project and the public trusts Wikipedia for neutral information. Disclosure of conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. COI issues get a bit ... interesting in Wikipedia, since we allow editors to be anonymous here. Conflict of interest in Wikipedia is managed via disclosure and then by a form of peer review.
First things first.. while I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by out WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some relationship with ZIOPHARM Oncology? You can answer how ever you wish, but if there is a COI with regard to topics you have edited please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 23:46, 2 May 2015 (UTC)