User talk:NanoNerd

Hello, International institute for nanotechnology, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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Hi, thank you so much for this info. This is my first article submission and clearly did not do enough research about conflict of interest! So embarrassing. I definitely don't want this to be rejected so I'll get on those corrections, starting with requesting a name change and clearly stating my COI. It's such a common practice in the nonprofits I've been with that I honestly never considered the username to be a potential red flag, but reading this totally makes sense. Is it possible to withdraw the submission and send it back to my sandbox? Or is that not necessary.

I'll get started on switching my name or create a personal account with my COI and start a draft. I actually made a draft of this article first but was having so many problems I had to start all over in sandbox. Thanks again for being so helpful. International institute for nanotechnology (talk) 21:53, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

The draft has already been submitted, so someone will look at it in due time. I have a concern about the figures - if they have been adapted from the linked articles published in ACS Nano, et cetera, they very likely are copyrighted and should not be used on Wikipedia under a free-use license as they are now. -- Reconrabbit 13:50, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

I think you're right. Permission from the authors doesn't mean permission from the publication itself. I am double-checking with the publications. Good note! International institute for nanotechnology (talk) 17:57, 19 September 2025 (UTC)