User talk:LadyGregory

Hello, LadyGregory. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to sources you may be affiliated with.

Editing in this way is a violation of the policy against using Wikipedia for promotion and is a form of conflict of interest. The editing community considers excessive self-citing to be a form of spamming on Wikipedia (WP:REFSPAM); the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

If you wish to continue contributing, please first consider citing other reliable secondary sources such as review articles that were written by other researchers in your field and that are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite sources for which you may have a conflict of interest, please start a new section on the article's talk page and add {{Edit COI}} to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

Hello, LadyGregory. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 COI}} template), 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. SmartSE (talk) 13:10, 5 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

December 2024

Please stop. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. SmartSE (talk) 12:27, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why was my link inappropriate? - it is a peer reviewed paper. 109.77.149.169 (talk) 13:57, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See the notices above. What you have been doing is classic reference spamming where you are adding citations to articles (presumably that you have written) with no content. Even if you do add content, it is preferable that you make a request on the article's talk page to request the information and citation be added: WP:SELFCITE. SmartSE (talk) 14:09, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't aware that content was required. Can you point me to where it says this in the rules? 109.77.149.169 (talk) 14:13, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well no, but the point of Wikipedia is to write an encyclopedia, not collect a list of papers. SmartSE (talk) 14:26, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I take your point. I'm new to Wiki posting and was probably a bit over enthusiastic about adding what I felt were appropriate references.

It's good to see strong content oversight - keep up the good work. 80.233.70.74 (talk) 14:41, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]