User talk:EMMALROSS

Hello, EMMALROSS. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page David L. Heymann, 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) 21:06, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

updating a page - how?

Dear Melcous Thank you for letting me know about the problems with my page update for David L Heymann. I am a first-timer with this, so was unaware of the protocol. I have looked through the talk page and the other bits you referred to and I am not sure what I have to do next to get the page updated. Eg. I couldn't work out what I need to do on the COI thing, if anything. Am not particularly technically savvy. Does knowing him create a conflict of interest? Does being colleagues? Do I have to fill out a COI form? I understand that I need to request the update through the talk page rather than direct update, which seems easy to do, but I didn't want to have more problems after that if there is something else I need to do. I am a colleague of David's and with his retirement I thought it would be a nice thing to do to update his wikipedia page, because it is grossly out of date and not accurate and I thought the page does not properly reflect his contributions to global health. I am not being paid for this, and have not ever been paid by David. He is not a client. We have been colleagues for a number of years at Chatham House (He was staff, I am a self-employed consultant there), and as editors of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual and I know a lot about his contributions to global health both as a former journalist who covered global health and later as a colleague of his, and therefore considered myself well placed to update the page about him.

Please can you let me know what I need to do next? thanks Emma Ross EMMALROSS (talk) 19:43, 7 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EMMALROSS and thanks for your explanation and questions. Yes, from what you have said you have a conflict of interest, so you need to abide by those guidelines, but as you are not being paid to edit you do not have to worry about those ones. There is no form for you to fill out or anything like that. What it means is that rather the editing the article directly, you should instead suggest/propose changes on the article's talk page. The easiest way to do that is using the Template:Request edit. It is best if you can ask for one or two changes at a time, saying something like "Please change x to y" or "Please add z to a section" and then provide links to reliable, independent, secondary sources that verify the information you are suggesting be added. Thanks. Melcous (talk) 07:33, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]