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COI policies

Hello, MakeTheBrainHappy. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Christopher E. Mason, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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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. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 01:11, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for writing. At present, I have no paid conflicts or financial relationship to disclose. Having reviewed the guidelines, I believe that my edits in good faith primarily to further the interests of the encyclopedia. With regard to the edit in question, please consider the following secondary sources: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-dna/u-s-top-court-weighs-patentability-of-human-genes-idINDEE93D06920130414/, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/supreme-court-set-to-hear-arguments-on-whether-human-genes-can-be-patented/, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033540/, and https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/voices-human-gene-patents-its-time-free-our-genes. MakeTheBrainHappy (talk) 11:59, 24 June 2024 (UTC)