Karmattol

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Sorry about reverting your edit adding Dreifuss to the Epilepsy article. As the link was red, there was no edit summary, and yours was a newly created account, I assumed it was someone mucking about. See you around, Colin°^Talk 16:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Sandbox

See Wikipedia:User page#How do I create a user subpage? for details of creating a sandbox as a user subpage. You can then leave your userpage for describing yourself (if you want to), your activities on WP and any shiny awards you earn. You can call the subpage anything you like, so you could create User:Karmattol/epilepsy if you want. It is unlikely that anyone would be rude enough to edit your sandbox unless you invited them to help, in which case collaboration is fine. Once the draft is at least better than what was already in the article, you can copy it over. At that point, your changes can show up on people's watchlist and may be edited mercilessly.

I suggest you copy the References section into your sandbox -- you will find that it is only a couple of lines long and gets expanded magically when you view the page depending on what references are present. Be careful not to copy any Category parts of the article, otherwise your user subpage will end up on some category page. Any questions, give me a shout on my talk page (nearly time for my bed, though...). Help:Contents is a good place to start if you have general editing queries. You may want to look at some quality medical articles for ideas of what works well. See also WP:MEDMOS and WP:MEDRS for medicine-specific guidelines. Cheers, Colin°^Talk 21:08, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I've added the References section, which showed up some problems with the reference citations (no closing curly braces). I've also improved a few citations by using Diberri's template-filling web site, which creates citations using a PubMed ID. See "Citing medical sources" in WP:MEDMOS for details. Colin°^Talk 07:49, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Ketogenic diet

I assume you know something about epilepsy, possibly professionally. I'd appreciate if you could find the time to read Ketogenic diet, which is an article I've been working on and off (mostly off) for quite some time. If this is your first time reading it, can you make a note if you come across anything that jumps out as confusing to the reader. Your critical opinion on its accuracy, readability and comprehensiveness would be useful if you can offer it. No rush or pressure at all. Colin°^Talk 21:15, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks for reviewing it (I've responded on the talk page). I'll bear those comments in mind as I refine the text. BTW, if you think your drafts are nearing readiness, let me know and I'll have a look. Colin°^Talk 20:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: H. Gerald Quigg (January 31)

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Nomination of Soo Ik Lee for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Soo Ik Lee is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soo Ik Lee until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Boleyn (talk) 16:14, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Karmattol. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. Your edits to date are on a bit of a run about University of Virginia medical school and its faculty. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Karmattol. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with University of Virginia medical school, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)... and also if you receive pay for editing Wikipedia (which is a somewhat separate issue)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens if that is relevant. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 19:56, 3 September 2017 (UTC)