Fjobrien

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SPA / COI

Hi Fjobrien all your edits to date have been about Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. This makes your account what we call a "single purpose account" (please see WP:SPA) I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some questions for you below.

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Question

Wikipedia is a scholarly project, and like all scholarly endeavors, disclosure of conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Every university has a Conflict of Interest Policy.

I work with others here in Wikipedia to help new editors (and old ones) become aware of our COI guideline and our Terms of Use.

Would you please review the COI guideline, and let us know your relationship with Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 13:11, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog. I am the Marketing Director of the College. I appreciate the time and effort you have extended in helping educate the representative from our former marketing agency (and, by extension, me) about the ins and outs of Wikipedia. As someone who consults WP regularly, I am grateful for the work that you and the other editors do to help ensure the veracity and objectivity of the site's content. We discussed your feedback at great length and did our best to follow the WP's guidelines in posting a [version of the page on April 5]. To whatever extent possible, we have provided links on the revised page to either WP pages or external web pages in order to document the statements contained therein. As you can imagine, for a small school such as ours, there are not volumes of content that exist about historical details or other aspects of our institution. In these instances - which we've tried to limit - there may not be links or the links may go back to our site, but this has been done out of necessity, rather than a desire to bypass third party sources. That said, I was hoping the time might be right for you or another editor to review the page again. What is "live" now is pretty spare, and I would very much like to present a fuller, truer picture of the College for those in the WP community. Any assistance you can provide is most appreciated. Fjobrien (talk) 16:41, 20 September 2017 (UTC)