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Back in the mid-noughties someone set up a Wikipedia page (an academic stub) about me - I still have no idea who did this. I stuck to the ethical principle of not adding to or otherwise editing it. Eventually some of my students found it and started adding "facts" - I was a Pokemon card collector, a breakdance champion etc. Ultimately it was deleted with (I think) the caption "No noteworthy achievements" - one of my regrets is not getting a screengrab of that justification. Best wishes Chris Dr Chris Willmott Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) and National Teaching Fellow Department of Molecular & Cell Biology University of Leicester LE1 7RH E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: 0116 229 7046 Blogs: www.bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com, www.lefthandedbiochemist.wordpress.com, www.biosciencecareers.wordpress.com and www.biologyonthebox.wordpress.com Twitter: @cjrw Science Editor, The Biochemist Biological Determinism, Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Insights from Genetics and Neuroscience (ISBN: 978-3319303895, published April 2016) Where Science and Ethics Meet: Dilemmas at the Frontiers of Medicine and Biology (ISBN: 978-1440851346, published June 2016) ________________________________ From: psci-com: on public engagement with science <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Bella Williams <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 03 June 2020 10:59 To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Wikipedia-article writer wanted Wikipedia regularly reviews and deletes pages in accordance with their very extensive guidelines. It is likely that the page didn’t pass one or more of the tests that allow Wikipedia to consider it note-worthy. They don’t like you to edit your own pages, partly because the information there should be obtained from secondary sources and correctly cited. This is difficult to do if you are very close to a topic. They are also very critical of anything that looks like paid content or a puff-piece. This is not what Wikipedia is for. If you want to contribute to Wikipedia it is worth doing, but you are best to work on subjects where you have expertise to contribute, but where you are not so close that you write based on opinion. If you want to fact-check and review information on a page, the editors are usually sympathetic, but you need to keep a neutral tone. Bella > On 3 Jun 2020, at 10:46, Marjolein Oorsprong <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am interested in this topic as well, as I am being asked repeatedly to create a Wikipedia entry for our organisation (there was one, it was deleted at some point, no idea why or by whom) and to keep it up to date. But I am aware of (some of) the rules of Wikipedia that block me from doing this myself, not in the least that I have never contributed to any pages, so I have no "editor status" of any kind. > > Thanks, > Marjolein > > Marjolein Oorsprong, M.A. (she/her/hers) > Communications Officer > PRACE aisbl > > -----Original Message----- > From: psci-com: on public engagement with science <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Andy Mabbett > Sent: Monday, 1 June 2020 21:16 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Wikipedia-article writer wanted > >> I'm an academic based at University of Bath, UK. 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