User talk:2001:638:502:5001:0:0:0:1002

January 2020
Hello, 2001:638:502:5001:0:0:0:1002. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to research published by a small group of researchers.

Scientific articles should mainly reference review articles to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

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

Finally, please be aware that the editing community highly values expert contributors – please see WP:EXPERT. I do hope you will consider contributing more broadly. If you wish to contribute, please first consider citing review articles written by other researchers in your field and which are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite your own research, please start a new thread on the article talk page and add requestedit to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

GermanJoe (talk) 15:06, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Dear GermanJoe,

thanks a lot for raising these concerns. I understand that my contribution might look like excessive self-citing. Still, I hope that the Wikipedia community will find my contributions relevant and appropriate. All of my citations are published in journals or conference proceedings recognized by the information systems community. One of the articles is indeed a review article that synthesizes the current state of the literature on the design of online review systems. However, I understand that my contributions need to be reviewed and might be removed.

2001:638:502:5001:0:0:0:1002 (talk) 16:09, 2 January 2020 (UTC)