User talk:Tudorrickards

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Entrepreneurship‎[edit]

Just to let you know. I removed your recent edit to Entrepreneurship‎. You have a conflict of interest with the information you put in. A better way of handling the insertion of the material is to discuss the information on the talk page and then let someone else decide what material is appropriate for the article. A new name 2008 (talk) 17:44, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for introducing me to the requisite wikiquette. As a novice to wikipedia editing, I look forward to learning more [I have taken another step in this reply, to learning correct protocols.] At risk of sounding defensive, I see how I might be regarded as having offended the principle of conflict of interest. It is correct that I inserted materials for which I have an interest. If that is contrary to the conflict of interest principle then I see how someone else has to insert such references (which I added in view of the request to add further references to the piece).

On the other hand, as someone who has published rather a lot on the specific relationship between creative and entrepreneurial individuals, it does make me at least as qualified as 'someone else' because like them, I've already gone through the peer-appraisal system in achieving publication of the articles I selected from among a wider set. My point is reinforced just because the gap remained, even within a well-developed article.

Incidentally, I was hoping to contact several leading reseachers in the field of creativity and entrepreneurship to draw their attention to the absence of their work in this article. I see now that also might lead to the charge of a conflict of interest, as these would mostly be contributing authors to The Routledge companion to creativityof which I am co-editor.

I still believe my original offering was not so much a conflict as gap-filling, but I'm sure I'm approaching well-trodden territories, and welcome guidance from the experts in the wiki-community.

Good luck to everyone helping provide what will become a useful document in a very fragmented field.

Tudorrickards (talk) 11:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]