User talk:Afternoonfriend

December 2021
Hello, Afternoonfriend. 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.

MrOllie (talk) 14:36, 31 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your message. The citations added reflect the most cited work in their respective subfields, to the best of my knowledge. Given your comments, I re-wrote my Wikipedia contributions and do not understand the latest reversion regarding: Associative classifier and the Minimum Description Length. In the first case, I removed all the citations in the latest version and wrote about all the recent trends, so there is clearly no conflict of interest there... In the second case, the Minimum Description Length clearly requires a concrete example of how to use that theory in a practical scenario, and that was what the contribution provided. Even though I could give other examples, the level of complexity took me to describe the most cited recent paper on using MDL in machine learning. I believe that your reversals bring some loss to the contents. Afternoonfriend (talk) 17:38, 31 December 2021 (UTC)