User talk:Tgamble

Welcome and conflict of interest

Hello, Theresa, and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed your contributions to HPTN 052, and wanted to thank you for that. Even though you mention that you don't know much about how to edit, you seem to be a fast learner. I personally find that the help pages are very useful and comprehensive, and come handy when I am unsure how to do something. The Wikipedia:Cheatsheet might be a good quick reference to keep around (you can also use the "help" section of the editing tools that show up when you're editing a page; it is essentially a cheatsheet too).

I also noticed you left a message for Blueraspberry. Allow me to chip in: your help is very welcome, and it would be great if you could contribute more to the HPTN 052 article. Don't forget to follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (just read "in a the nutshell" summary at the top of the page for now, and don't bother reading the whole thing, which might be a little intimidating; as long as you follow the general principle from the summary and act using common sense, you should be fine). Wikipedia:The perfect article is a short summary of how to write a good article. Wikipedia:Writing better articles goes into more detail, if you like. The Wikipedia:Manual of Style is also a helpful reference; it is quite complete and will almost certainly have guidelines about any style doubt you might have. Use the box at the right of that page to browse the contents and find the section that is relevant to what you want to know.

Before I finish, allow me to give you a couple tips:

First, I recommend you to experiment a lot using the preview button, and only save your edits when the result looks good to you; that way, the history log of articles won't be clogged with intermediate steps of a trial-and-error session.
Second, make sure you sign your messages with ~~~~ whenever you're commenting on a user or article talk page. That will automatically produce your username with a link to your page, and a timestamp, when you save the page.

Feel free to contact me on my talk page if there's anything I can help you with, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Happy editing! Waldir ^talk 13:05, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Teresa. Lots of people on this website talk about conflict of interest as Waldir is doing. The big problem is that too often people who edit in relation to their job promote their employer and remove negative information about their interests. I work with scientists and researchers and teach Wikipedia to organizations and especially research institutions. I know the difference in culture with research institutions and for example, commercial marketing agencies, but right now there is not specialized infrastructure on Wikipedia to reach out to research groups who want to do educational outreach.

There are a few directions in which we could go at this point. How do any of these options sound?

If you have sources for information and suggestions for what an overview of what HPTN 052 should say, then this would be the single most helpful tool for guiding someone else to expand the article and I would appreciate it greatly.
If you personally want to edit any part of the HPTN 052 article then I will be able to help you do this.
If you just want to talk about what it means to use Wikipedia as a data dissemination platform then I would be happy to talk with you by phone about this.

I am interested in getting researchers to be aware of the Wikipedia articles because I see this as an informed consent concern since most laymen go to Wikipedia to get neutral information about technical topics. In the past I have contributed to other HIV research articles and I do work in research ethics in general. What can I do to make it easy for you and your team to share the published information about this important and history-making project? Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:07, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note to Blue Raspberry

Hello -

I would try and contact you by phone.

-Theresa