User talk:Darrin Baines

❧

This is Darrin Baines's talk page, where you can send them messages and comments.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Your submission at Articles for creation: UK–China Health & Economy Partnership (July 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Pythoncoder was:

Your draft shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT. Their outputs usually have multiple issues that prevent them from meeting our guidelines on writing articles. These include:

Promotional tone, editorializing and other words to watch
Vague, generic, and speculative statements extrapolated from similar subjects
Essay-like writing
Hallucinations (plausible-sounding, but false information) and non-existent references
Close paraphrasing

Please address these issues. The best way is usually to read reliable sources and summarize them, instead of using a large language model. See our help page on large language models.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:UK–China Health & Economy Partnership and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

—pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 21:21, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Darrin Baines! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 21:21, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

August 2025

Hello, I'm Epsilon.Prota. I noticed that you recently removed content from Prescription charges without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Epsilon.Prota ^talk 22:00, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Darrin Baines. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Controlling prescribing costs in the NHS, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the Edit Request Wizard), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. OceanLoop (talk) 23:16, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the note. I totally understand. I noticed that the contents about the history of NHS prescribing cost control was severly lacking. I am trying to add better contents and most of it historical documents, and other authors. I have written previously about this topic and I am makimg a small number of citations of my work because this topic has not been covered by someone else. I'm keen to learn, what do you suggest? My articles are published in a reputatble journal and add to the brief wikipedia summaries. Please, advise. Darrin Baines (talk) 23:22, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

I recommend asking in the Teahouse for a definitive answer, but my understanding is writing about yourself and your own work is discouraged, if not outright disallowed. You may also use an article's Talk page to suggest addition of a source you may have a COI with. Thank you. OceanLoop (talk) 23:24, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I understand. I am happy to remove references to my articles, but it may be misleading. I wrote these articles over 10 years ago and the information hasn't made it to wikipedia, which is a shame given that it is relevant to current NHS changes. I am happy to follow the lead given. Darrin Baines (talk) 23:29, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

If you don't get traction in individual article Talk pages, try searching for a relevant portal on Wikipedia which may have a larger community interested in reporting on your work. OceanLoop (talk) 23:31, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I will seek help. Darrin Baines (talk) 23:36, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for contributing!

@OceanLoop I don't really think this is a COI issue. I think it's fine for subject matter experts to contribute to the fields they know about—though it would be ideal to include references from other authors as well, and to seek input from others to ensure we get a broad and unbiased coverage of the topic.

However @Darrin Baines you do need to be careful not to take too much from the source. The Wikipedia article you have contributed reads very similarly to the article you had published in Prescriber. Despite being the author of that, the copyright seems to sit with the journal, so you need to be very careful not plagiarise from it. Everything contributed to Wikipedia needs to be free of copyright. David Palmer//cloventt ^(talk) 23:38, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

I didnt realise I had quoted myself so often, it is a mistake. I can fix that now. Thank you for the support Darrin Baines (talk) 23:47, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hello Darrin Baines! The thread you created at the Teahouse, New to editing and self-promotion, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days.

You can still read the archived discussion. If you have follow-up questions, please create a new thread.

See also the help page about the archival process. The archival was done by lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by KiranBOT, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=KiranBOT}} on top of the current page (your user talk page). —KiranBOT (talk) 03:08, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for using your expertise to improve Wikipedia by creating Controlling prescribing costs in the NHS, and for working with others to refine the content on the talk page. The article focusses on history up to 1961, but that's not really something conveyed in the title. Give its historial focus, I've boldly merged it over to the NHS History page, where more readers will see it. There are still some unreferenced sections (which I've left because I think that the content is helpful), but leaving the unreferenced will leave them prone to deletion without notice. I hope that you can continue to contribute! Klbrain (talk) 12:57, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Darrin Baines. Thank you for your work on Local insurance committee. Another editor, Klbrain, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thank you for this very interesting article on health care in the UK in the early 20th century. While the content is interesting, the scope of the activity of the insurance committee isn't very clear. There is a lot of 'background', which could be said to relate more to the act than the to the insurance committees, and its very unclear as to what role the committees had within the actions described in the 'cost control measures' section. Its also very unclear when the committees ended.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Klbrain}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Klbrain (talk) 15:55, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

I am going away for a conference, but will fix asap. Thanks for point this out. Much appreciated. Darrin Baines (talk) 23:07, 28 September 2025 (UTC)