User talk:Bayes Puppy

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Referencing Kruschke
Dear Bayes Puppy,

Welcome to Wikipeida.

I noticed that your hour of editing predominantly consisted of the adding the textbook, A tutorial on Bayesian statistics using WinBUGS and R, by Kruschke. If you wish to add this book to other articles, then I would be delighted if you could post references here to reviews in leading journals or endorsements from leading statisticians (or statistics educators). Your posting such reviews/endorsements would allay the concerns with Single-purpose accounts often being associated with a possible appearance of a conflict of interest. Your posting links to reviews or endorsements might also inform me of a new book which might be excellent for my students or future teaching, too!

Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 23:49, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Reply to above note from user Kiefer.Wolfowitz
Hi. Thanks for your note.

The book has been endorsed, on its back cover and in the publisher's online description, by the President of the Society for Mathematical Psychology and by the Chairperson of the Psychology Dept at Stanford University.

I noticed that several (or even most) of the books listed in sections headed Additional Reading or Further Reading are not cited in the bodies of the articles. Therefore it seemed appropriate to link the new textbook in those sections. If it is not appropriate, then it seems that many other books listed in all those sections ought to be expunged too.

Thanks again.

Bayes Puppy (talk) 15:00, 15 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi BayesPuppy! Your editing fits the profile of single purpose accounts, which raises concerns of conflict of interest, etc. The book that you are promoting is not yet established, unlike the other books, which cover the most established and best Bayesian statistical textbooks, I trust that you would agree: Other editors apparently do, because they have not changed them for a long time. Are you certain that your promoted book is more mathematically simple than the 3rd edition of the book by the philosophers, etc.?
 * Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 12:05, 21 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi again, BP! In welcoming you, the founder of the Wiki Project Statistics used the template that gently mentions concerns with spamming. (I mention this because the subtleties of such "welcome" templates escaped me until recently.) Please consider the general concerns with book-spamming.
 * Given your championing of this book, would you please provide in-line citations to it (in the articles to which you added it)? It would be kind of you to do the same with a few other books that you note also lack in-line citations, and doing so would free your account from the label of single purpose accounts, imho.
 * Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 13:07, 21 December 2010 (UTC)