User talk:Bwilliston

July 2023
Hello, Bwilliston. 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) 17:24, 21 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello. Thanks for this. I'm not sure I see the problem. I have added a few links to my own published research only where the article in question needs some such reference. For example, in the article on the Anthropocene, previous authors write that in the humanities, philosophers have had something to say about the topic. But no reference is supplied to back up this claim, so I put in my own published philosophical research (with Oxford University Press) in order to fill in the gap. Isn't that a legitimate update? Bwilliston (talk) 17:38, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
 * You added a reference to yourself to every article you edited. No, we do not regard that has legitimate updates here. Please read the links in the above message for details. MrOllie (talk) 18:28, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Henry Shue, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. TheBigBookOfNaturalScience 📖 (💬/📜) 19:07, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Byron Williston (November 7)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by WikiOriginal-9 was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 04:21, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Byron Williston


Hello, Bwilliston. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Byron Williston".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗ plicit  14:00, 7 May 2024 (UTC)