J. Berndorff

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Please mind the namespaces

You can find your pages at User:J.Berndorff/sandbox3 and User:J.Berndorff/sandbox3 AGAIN. Please take care not to create your sandbox pages in the main namespace. Fram (talk) 17:17, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Oh, sorry for the mistake and thanks for correcting this J. Berndorff (talk) 06:38, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, J. Berndorff. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:36, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello Jimfbleak, my understanding of the Wikipedia rules is that while it is not ideal to create or modify entries on behalf of individuals/institutions/companies, it is permitted if you disclose this commission and it serves the purpose of Wikipedia to inform the public about relevant matters. Provided, of course, that one adheres to the Wikipedia rules regarding relevance, transparency and a factual, encyclopedic writing style.

Or does an institution or a scientist with social relevance have to wait until a completely independent Wikipedian gets the idea to create an entry? In many cases, it is rather employees or other persons associated with the institution who create an entry or correct existing entries if they contain errors. Because they have the necessary knowledge about the institution.

In my case, some institutions have decided to commission an independent science journalist to create an entry according to Wikipedia rules or to add relevant information to existing entries or to bring them up to date. To me, this seemed legitimate. I went through a mentoring program at the German Wikipedia and made my entries to the best of my knowledge and belief, striving above all to avoid promotion. If individual formulations nevertheless appear too promotional, they must of course be corrected or deleted. But the researchers or institutes described remain relevant.

Do I see this wrong? J. Berndorff (talk) 08:11, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Reply

If you leave me a message on this page, I will know you have done so if you start it with my user name, User:Jimfbleak and sign it with four tildes ~~~~ when you post it. That will send me an alert.

There is a formal way to declare your COI. You must post it on your user page User:J. Berndorff with the format {{paid|client= |employer=}} with separate templates for each employer/client.

Please read the guidance below:

• When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.

• Your text, other than his papers, was largely unsourced.

• By definition, his own papers are not independent third-party sources and don't contribute to his notability since they are part of an academic's job. They are not suitable as references. Journal articles should be in a separate Publications section with no further reference. We need to know what independent sources say.

• Some of your refs are incomplete. For example, the Nature paper doesn't include the journal name or the authors. References that are not in English should include the language= parameter

• You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

• In just the first paragraph we get ) is an accomplished Austrian biochemist renowned for his extensive contributions... a world-class research program... positioning the institute as a leading center in the field. Lots of weasel words throughout

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If you write about an organisation, the notability guidelines for organisations and companies involve primary criteria with five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:

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Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:30, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Ok User:Jimfbleak, thanks for this very detailed explanation. I will try my best to abide better by these rules. I also read now that in COI cases like this it is recommended to prepare the article in the Wikipedia:Articles for creation process. Will do this next time. J. Berndorff (talk) 15:51, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

User:Jimfbleak, is there a way to get the last version of the deleted entry so that I can make the desired improvements to it? This would allow me to keep all the corrections that were made to the entry after it was published. Thanks! J. Berndorff (talk) 08:33, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Restored at User:Berndorff/Gebhard Schertler Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:45, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

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