User talk:Buslawprof

August 2020
Hi Buslawprof! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Reasonable doubt that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 02:01, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Second notice: Please stop marking all of your edits as minor. Read WP:MINOR. Sundayclose (talk) 02:52, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Self-published articles
Hi, I noticed you've added a number of references on various articles to SSRN papers by Prof. Michael Conklin, which I assume from your username is yourself. I'm sure some of these could be useful additions to Wikipedia, but I'm not sure they are yet sufficiently reliable sources to be included yet. See the guidelines for self-published sources for more information. I've rolled back a couple of your edits that I thought were not yet supportable just from an SSRN post. Once a paper is published in an actual law review, scholarly journal, etc., that might provide sufficient reliability to make it acceptable for citation here. Until then, please watch out for the risk of appearing to be engaging in "citation spamming" ("Variations of citation spamming include academics and scientists using their editing privileges primarily to add citations to their own work...").

Thanks for your attention to this matter. --EightYearBreak (talk) 14:52, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for reaching out to me regarding this. The research papers published on SSRN are all either published in law journals or in the editing process to be published in law journals. Please let me know which ones you "rolled back" and how you arrived at the conclusion that the information was not correct so that I may respond. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buslawprof (talk • contribs)
 * You need to cite the actual journal article, not the SSRN post. All sources need to be already published, not just in the editing process. You also may want to read WP:COI. I'm not saying you have a conflict of interest, but you have to be very careful not to engage in promotion of your own publications because of lack of objectivity. You are not required to do so, but I advise that you suggest an edit (with your article cited) on the article's talk page and wait for comments before adding it to an article. To find which of your edits have been reverted look in the edit history for the articles you have edited. Pinging . Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 17:18, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

The misunderstanding appears to be what SSRN is. It's not a "post" analogous to a blog post. It is the complete peer-reviewed journal article, the "actual journal article" as you put it. When you clicked on the SSRN link you can just see a short abstract of the journal article but the "actual journal article" is there, you just have to click on it.
 * Nonetheless, cite the journal article, not SSRN. It's not difficult, and that's standard procedure here. Sundayclose (talk) 01:08, 4 August 2020 (UTC)