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Interesting. Well, the bit that I understand. Not sure how this applies to the tweaking I do of biographical entries on the basis of paid work done in a different context. Looking at that page, it seems be heavily influenced by US law. I know that the US likes to think that its law should apply anywhere and everywhere, but I wasn't aware that this had become a reality. MK -----Original Message----- From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sam Kuper Sent: 2014-March-03 17:31 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Wikipedia editathon on women in science and engineering tomorrow! On 03/03/2014, Imran Khan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Michael, Wikipedia has pretty clear & sensible guidelines on not > creating/editing articles about yourself or your organisation except to > correct factual inaccuracies, if I remember correctly. > > Of course the beauty of these edit-athons is that they don't fall into that > category, and I'm also a big fan of CR UK providing accurate info on > wikipedia's many pages on cancer > <http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/press-release/wikipedia-and-cancer-research-uk-to-take-cancer-information-to-the-next-level> On a related note, PSCI-COMmers may wish to express an opinion on this proposed amendment to the Terms of Use (likely deadline March 21, 2014): http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment Regards, Sam ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************