User talk:Wrpearson

Hello, Wrpearson. 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 conflict of interest 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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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 13:51, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Melcous - thank you for letting me know about the COI policy. Since the Wikipedia page is about me, I have an obvious conflict of interest. However, my changes to the page were quite minor; I included an additional award (AAAS Fellow), mentioned some of my "computational biology" work as a graduate student (before there was any "computational biology" or "bioinformatics"), and corrected some dead links.

If you feel my mention of papers as a graduate student violates the COI policy, I can certainly remove them. I think the other changes are not unreasonable. Wrpearson (talk) 17:35, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply. In the future, please do not edit the article directly but rather use the talk page to propose changes that can be reviewed by a neutral editor. This can most easily be done using the Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 22:20, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]