User talk:Edcpf

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Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 05:30, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Medical articles on Wikipedia must be cited by the best available evidence and written in a consistent format. We typically use review articles. A list of resources to help edit such articles can be found here. The edit box has a build in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN, additionally, the Citation Template Generator will aid in the formatting of references; all one needs to do is cut and paste the results. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 12:23, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia[edit]

HiEdcpf I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. Your edits to date are pretty much all about Peregrine Pharmaceuticals and their products, and are mostly promotional. 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, Edcpf. 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. In particular, please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your circle, your organization, its competitors, projects or products;
instead propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
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 for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests[edit]

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 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 Peregrine? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. Please reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 05:31, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am highly knowledgeable about the company in question and its PS-targeting technology. I was a small-time investor during a period from 6/2013 to 3/2014, however I find that I currently do not have a COI, and can use my knowledge freely to make relevant edits to some of the Wikipedia articles about this technology. Should I become an investor again, rest assured this will be mentioned here, and I will take necessary steps to have COI explicitly mentioned, and I will not participate in edits during that time.

While I find some of the latest edits by Jytdog from 02/12/2016 and 02/13/2016 to be fair, there are some points I would like to raise.

I do not agree with removing the bavituximab, Cotara, and 124I-PGN650 articles about these pharmaceuticals. See ipilimumab, rituximab, durvalumab, sorafenib, tremelimumab etc. While Jytdog claims that my focus on a single company can point to a potential COI, I find it questionable how these articles are now combined within the Peregrine Pharmaceuticals article. I have used my knowledge about the pharmaceuticals in question, in good faith, to encyclopedically record the current knowledge about their properties. I believe that targeting bavituximab article for removal is highly questionable while most of the other articles about monoclonal antibodies are intact, and contain relevant clinical trial information.

I believe that I and my articles have been unfairly targeted for mass editing, and while some good primary/secondary source problems have been fixed, encyclopedic quality of the articles have gone down. Even though I am blamed for using Primary sources, such third-party references as the Dovepress article Profile of bavituximab and its potential in the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer by Stasi et al, have been removed. I also believe that using company-supplied clinical data results for pharmaceuticals is not against Wikipedia policies, providing that it is explicitly stated that these pharmaceuticals have not been approved and that these results are company-reported. Information such as clinical trial results, which is available in an encyclopedic format, makes it an excellent research material for e.g. medical and science students. If we could have at least 1/10th of the information about these pharmaceuticals as there is on e.g. Kanye West, this would be a better Wikipedia for everybody.

Over time, if I find that something needs rectifying with my identity and actions so that they conform, fully and explicitly, to the current Wikipedia TOS, I will take the necessary steps for that.

--Edcpf (talk) 13:07, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I hear you that in your view you have no COI. In my view (and I am experienced in these matters, and understand how the community views them), you do. Because you actually mentioned not investing in Peregrine in a post you made and then removed that, signalling a change, I looked to see if you talk about about that elsewhere. You do - a lot. This post is particularly disturbing - the discussion about "our" page shows that your investor group there has hijacked the Wikipedia article. Please acknowledge that your activities on that board constitute an "interest" that is in conflict with what is supposed to be your primary interest every time you edit - namely, the mission of Wikipedia.

You also have not disclosed if you have some professional relationship with Peregrine. Please disclose that.

We can resolve this here, simply, or I can take this to the community at the COI notice board. The latter is more likely to lead to administrative action against you (a topic ban or indefinite block). If you choose to act like a Wikipedian and acknowledge your COI and agree to follow the COI guideline going forward (and I can explain what that means if you like), then we can resolve this without drama and sucking up other volunteers' time. We can manage your COI if you will work with us. But if you won't, the COI needs to be eliminated by topic banning you, at least. It is your choice. Do let me know. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 16:37, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Addtional note - as you know I work for a biotech startup - I've declared some specifics about that company and to deal that potential COI, I just don't don't edit anything in WP in the field in which my company works (I eliminate the COI by not working on that stuff). But I want to make sure you know - I think biomedical innovation is fascinating and so, so important, and I know very well that it is risky as hell. When I work on articles about drugs, I generally add information about where they came from and how they got developed. But I do this in a way that is encyclopedic - it is about known and accepted history (I do it in the "history" section that is part of MEDMOS) - it is not news, and I pretty much do that only on drugs that actually made it to market. There is ~sometimes~ enduring encyclopedic matter about drugs that fail but not often... and drugs that are in the process of being clinically tested, we tend not to say much about, because not much that is enduring is known yet - we don't know if the drug really is safe and effective, or not, and we generally do not record the blow-by-blow while that is figured out - that is kind of "news'y" and not enduring. Jytdog (talk) 17:51, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am not affiliated financially and personally in any way with anonymous posters on the board to which you have referred (the "ihub" board). I do not endorse them to write messages, search and post about information about Peregrine or Wikipedia. I may talk to them and reply to their posts. I am not affiliated with Peregrine professionally. I do monitor public information about the company and its activities. As I have said, my interest and knowledge about the PS-targeting technology has stemmed from my past, but not current, investments in the company. The spirit and mission of Wikipedia do not prohibit me from using my knowledge, obtained in this way, to write articles.

I am in no way responsible for any past, present, or future ad hominem attacks, stalking, or other activities directed at you by other people (anonymous posters) on the internet, including internet message boards. Most of these attacks have been made, in my opinion, likely by big time investors wishing to have as much information available on the internet about the company, at any cost, which is not my main mission.

Re: "I looked to see if you talk about about that elsewhere. You do - a lot. This post is particularly disturbing - the discussion about "our" page shows that your investor group there has hijacked the Wikipedia article." If you look carefully, this particular post you mentioned was not made by me, and the posts made by me actually defend your actions on Wikipedia. Since I still want some of the posters to supply articles and references that I review for introduction to Wikipedia, I wanted to calm everybody down over there. To my knowledge, nobody has "hijacked" anything on Wikipedia, and I am only responsible for the Wikipedia posts made under the "edcpf" name.

The edits I have made to my page in no way show my actual investing activities, and my actual activities can in no way be inferred from these. In my previous edit, I have disclosed my current financial involvement, which is zero. I do not see how an increased knowledge about the company can constitute any conflict of interest, unless I choose to act upon this knowledge in the future via, for example, buying shares of the company.

The reason my user page is empty is because I, as many Wikipedians, edit in spare time (which is limited), and do not want an incomplete page, so the best course of action was to leave it blank until I write a longer description. I believe that I represent the majority of Wikipedia editors, who have limited time, but still wish to contribute, and because of that have focused on a single subject making infrequent edits. I do that in good faith, and do not wish to act upon other investors' desires I mentioned before.

I, too, do not want to write "newsy" information, however I believe that clinical trial results, even on an unapproved drug, still constitute encyclopedic material. The unapproved drug in question, bavituximab, is notable for having been in multiple clinical trials over many years, and has had dozens, if not hundreds, of articles written about it, and is more notable than many monoclonal antibodies with actual articles on Wikipedia. This is why I believe deleting this article was an incorrect course of action; however, making sure it conforms to Wikipedia rules is another thing. --Edcpf (talk) 16:49, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your replies. Should you decide you want to put time into the articles at some point, I look forward to working with you. I also wanted to say that I appreciated this. Jytdog (talk) 23:46, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of SUNRISE trial[edit]

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A tag has been placed on SUNRISE trial, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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