User talk:84.67.8.88

July 2023
Hello, 84.67.8.88. 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.

Editing in this way is 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); the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Scientific articles should prefer secondary sources to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

The editing community highly values expert contributors, so 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 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.

MrOllie (talk) 15:01, 27 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Have you checked if the reference is relevant to the section? Are mathematical and computational models an alternative for animal models? (Which is what the section is about). There are 200k+ references for this in PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=mathematical+model+cancer). The reference is a review and comparison of these models. If after reading the paper it is judged not to be relevant, fair enough remove it. But why deleting without reading the paper and judging if it is relevant to the section? 84.67.8.88 (talk) 15:31, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * 'Relevant' is not sufficient for inclusion. The phone number for my local plumber is 'relevant' to Plumbing, but we don't list it on our article. Your apparent conflict of interest seems to be blinding you to other factors - like the fact that the article is on a predatory publisher, or that it adds nothing of value to the article. MrOllie (talk) 15:36, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, that is why reading the sources is important. But it seems that you are an expert in model organisms and do not think that mathematical models and computational models can be an alternative. 84.67.8.88 (talk) 15:49, 27 July 2023 (UTC)