User talk:Petersmillard

Your submission at Articles for creation: Unicirc (December 15)

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This submission reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. Submissions should summarise information in secondary, reliable sources and not contain opinions or original research. Please write about the topic from a neutral point of view in an encyclopedic manner.
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Overly promotional due to the fact that it lists every study done on the device. We don't need to know the intimate details of every trial performed. There is also some major CITEKILL in the middle of the draft. In other words, please trim it up a bit.
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Unicirc (January 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Shadowowl was:
This submission reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. Submissions should summarise information in secondary, reliable sources and not contain opinions or original research. Please write about the topic from a neutral point of view in an encyclopedic manner.
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Contains promotional text and badly formatted references.
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» Shadowowl | talk 10:30, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 26 January

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Unicirc has been accepted

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 16:34, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have no conflict of interest. I am an independent epidemiologist. Here is the statement on the following article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0157065

"The authors received no specific funding for this work, did not/do not serve as employees or consultants, and have no financial interest in this product or any marketed products or products in development. The authors have no competing interests, defined as anything that interferes with, or could reasonably be perceived as interfering with, the full and objective presentation, peer review, editorial decision-making, or publication of research or non-research articles. No competing interests, financial or non-financial, professional, or personal, exist. No competing interests exist in relationship to an organization or another person."

Simunye Primary Healthcare funded your study, and they're the makers of Unicirc. How is this not a conflict of interest? Stix1776 (talk) 17:05, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Petersmillard

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Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --Petersmillard (talk) 21:27, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any idea what motivated this. Perhaps it is because I included links to 2 of my recent publications. I have removed the links. Any other directions about what is inappropriate would be much appreciated.

It reads like a faux article because of the way it is written. Theroadislong (talk) 21:37, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Gosh. I don't know what that means. I used James Heilman's user page as a guide.

User:James Heilman's page uses the first person whereas yours uses "he" instead of "I" which makes it read like an article about you rather than a user page...sorry to be a pedant. Theroadislong (talk) 21:55, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here is James' article. I must be missing something. Please advise 

"James M. "Doc James" Heilman is a Canadian emergency room physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopaedia.[2][3]

He is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine, is a volunteer Wikipedia administrator, was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013, and founded and was formerly the president of Wiki Project Med Foundation.[4][5][6][7][8] He is also the founder of WikiProject Medicine's Medicine Translation Task Force.[9] In June 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, a position which he held until he was removed on December 28, 2015.[10][11][12]

Heilman is a clinical assistant professor at the department of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia,[13][14] and the head of the department of emergency medicine at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, British Columbia, where he lives.[1][2] He often works the night shift in the emergency room at East Kootenay Regional Hospital.[14]

James Heilman is NOT a user page though? It's an article about him. Theroadislong (talk) 22:10, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I had no idea. Please be so kind as to delete my user page.

It just needs re-writing in the first person like User:Doc James's page. Theroadislong (talk) 22:39, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

ok

Thank you for making the changes. Your user page is for sharing information about you as a Wikipedia editor. A limited amount of biographical material about yourself outside Wikipedia is allowed, but it may not be anything resembling a Wikipedia article. Theroadislong (talk) 22:50, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'm learning a lot.

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Thanks.

Hi Petersmillard (new section)

Thanks for calling my attention to the redundant wikification of primary intention and secondary intention. I was aware of the rule, but I did not realize that those pages had been linked in another part of the rather long article. That was an oversight on my part. I have deleted those redundant links.

Thanks again.

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Bizarre. I assure you it wasn't intentional. Petersmillard (talk) 20:22, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note that per MOS:LISTGAP the beginning set of "indent symbols" (ex: asterisks or colons) should not be changed, nor should empty lines be left between comments in a list, for accessibility reasons. I've fixed your comments on the talk page, but please do your best to comply with the recommendations in the MOS guideline as it will ensure those who use screen readers or other assistive devices are not inconvenienced trying to "read" the discussion on the talk page. I've fixed it for now though. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 14:38, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Since you tie your real name to your Wikipedia profile, an NPOV sanction could be professionally embarrassing

I'm looking on your edits, and you edit a lot of circumcision. I'm not here to complain about your edits, but rather your use of your actual name on Wikipedia. It's one thing for red_dragon371 to get a community ban, but in you're case, complaints on Wikipedia might make it to the real world. I'd recommend using a more anonymous nickname. Stix1776 (talk) 02:42, 30 May 2021 (UTC) Thanks. I appreciate the advice. I had not thought of that, but don't plan on getting any NPOV. Can you please respond to my talk page query? Petersmillard (talk) 11:31, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Petersmillard, I've mentioned you here: [1].Stix1776 (talk) 10:24, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What is WP:MDS?

You mentioned it in this dif [[2]]. Did you mean something else? Stix1776 (talk) 04:04, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You got it. Petersmillard (talk) 10:51, 28 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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