Talk:National Center for Voice and Speech

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So, I added a bunch of links and changed some words. I think we can remove the Conflict of Interest tag. Any objections? If non, I will remove it in a week or so.Larynxdude (talk) 20:20, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I just removed the conflict of interest tag. No one complained. Larynxdude (talk) 20:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Let me preface my remarks by saying I'm not affiliated with the NCVS or DCPA, and I am new to this wikipedia thing -- so I don't want to get involved in any battle. With that said, I'm not sure I understand why the conflict of interest tag has been re-added. It appears to me that that it's been edited enough since the original entry that any conflict of interest has been taken out, especially since the last SLP1 edits. [[72.244.57.45 (talk) 13:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)]]

Thanks for your compliment about my edits. Given that people from NCVS have edited this and other articles a lot to promote their organization, and the fact that there are many unreferenced sentences here I feel it is worth leaving the COI tag on until some other independent editors can take a pass through and check it out. --Slp1 (talk) 22:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Like I said, I'm new to this whole thing -- trying to understand it because it seems this is where the mainstream public gets their knowledge. But unless *you* are affiliated with the NCVS, I think you re-adding the tag *after* your edits taking out any possible problems seems rather odd. (: There have been quite a few edits -- I'm not sure which are by NCVS folks, but the bottom line is that it looks like any possible conflict of interest seems to be taken out by now. If we look at most entries for companies/organizations listed in Wikipedia, I'm pretty sure they were put in by the company's PR department rather than somebody with *no* conflict of interest -- these guys just seem to be scientists rather than PR people. So my thought is that unless we want to peg every entry for every company, we have to eventually call it good when any inappropriate content is out. (68.164.43.156 (talk) 16:12, 13 June 2008 (UTC))