User talk:Martin Moritzi

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I can't understand your repeated arguments about my attempt to state a fact about mycorrhiza. I see that I can still work on my encyclopaedic writing style. But I did not use any copyrighted material for my statements, the sources are all open access. How many of my sentence elements could be called copied in the process, I don't know, but "extensive text" is certainly not. How did you come to your judgement? But well, maybe I'll try another topic sometime. Thanks for the exchange. (Martin Moritzi (talk) 14:20, 25 August 2023 (UTC))

Managing a conflict of interest

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. SmartSE (talk) 08:22, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

I do not see a conflict of interest (COI) as you have suspected. In fact, I work in one of the research institutes (WSL) that manages one cited source (Waldwissen.net) and I know the researchers I mentioned (which is why I know about the research results that I considered relevant for Wikipedia). But I was not mandated or paid to describe these research results in Wikipedia. Can one even speak of COI in context with the dissemination of scientific findings (open access)?

(Martin Moritzi (talk) 14:22, 25 August 2023 (UTC))