User talk:CeLsoMInisa

January 2023
Hello, I'm Graham87. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Columbian exchange have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Graham 87 15:15, 24 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Graham87. Thanks for letting me know. I will go ahead and revise the contributions such that the citations are to the published article and not to the personal website of one of the article's authors. Much appreciated. CeLsoMInisa (talk) 21:44, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Hello, CeLsoMInisa. 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 request edit to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

Graham 87 02:59, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Promoting particular researchers is not acceptable here. Graham 87 02:59, 25 January 2023 (UTC)