User talk:Tanya Malick

Your username

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Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Tanya Malick. I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing, which is mostly about health and medicine. Your edits to date are promotional with regard to College of Optometrists and that was your original account name. 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, Tanya Malick. 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. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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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. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. 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. Here in Wikipedia such disclosures must be made explicitly. Would you please disclose any connection you have with the College of Optometrists? After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens and then, if you like, I can provide you with some more general orientation as to how this place works. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 13:32, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

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Hi

Yes I work for the College of Optometrists. We are a registered charity - we are the professional body for optometrists. We qualify the profession and provide guidance, development and training to ensure optometrists provide the best possible care.

We have a patient website (LookAfterYourEyes.org) with information on various eye conditions e.g. cataract, blepharitis etc. Our organisation must remain impartial at all times and cannot promote any commercial organisations. I just wanted to add links to each eye condition page for patients to find more information on the subject and to visit their optometrist as a first port of call.

I hope we can keep our links on the 'external links' sections of the eye conditions. I still had more to add, but I will hold off until you give me the go-ahead.

Many thanks Tanya