User talk:Cloviahamilton

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Hello, Cloviahamilton, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Technology transfer, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! - Arjayay (talk) 17:35, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
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Wordpress and self-promotion
Please STOP adding your own blog to our articles, as blogs are not permitted, and Wordpress, being self-published, is not a reliable source - Thank you - Arjayay (talk) 17:35, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Business ethics, you may be blocked from editing. - Arjayay (talk) 18:11, 19 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Claudia, I just want to second what Arjayay is telling you. Wikipedia has become what it is  - something that people actually come to in order to learn - because a lot of people have done what they should do.  This being an open project, in which we extend editing privileges (they are privileges, not a "right") to everybody, it is very vulnerable to abuse - to people coming here and doing what they can do, which is... write almost anything.  But if everybody acted like you are doing here, WP would become a steaming pile of garbage in even more places than it already is, and nobody would come here anymore.  So what you are doing is a self-defeating strategy in the big picture a true "tragedy of the commons".


 * Please stop abusing Wikipedia to promote yourself.


 * We have a policy against using WP to promote anything, and that is WP:PROMO and if you continue to abuse your editing privileges for self-promotion, they will be removed.


 * All that said, we love experts here, and if you are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in order to further the mission of Wikipedia instead of promoting yourself that would be wonderful.  Please see user:Jytdog/How for an orientation to WP - to the mission, how this place is governed, and the policies and guidelines through which we realize the mission.


 * I'll also provide some information for you about how we manage conflict of interest here, in a new section below. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 19:31, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
I don't want to belabor this but please see WP:SELFCITE. If you want to cite your own work, please post on the associated talk page and ask folks at the article if they believe the proposed content, based on a source written by you, is a useful addition to the article. This is how we do "prior peer review". It is a bit weird but part of how things work in Wikipedia. It is as parallel to standard academic publishing as we can get. If that doesn't make sense, you can leave a note for me below, and we can discuss. Best regards -- Jytdog (talk) 03:40, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

November 2017
This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at Technology transfer, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. CHRISSY MAD ❯❯❯  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  16:58, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Alexf(talk) 13:52, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
I am a professor at a university. I have several published research articles that I would like to add to existing pages in Wikipedia as scholarly contributions. I see articles listed and I would love to add mine. My areas of interest is technology transfer and business ethics. I have my articles listed on my wordpress page. I realize that those are frowned upon. But, they are also available in digital commons repositories, bepress, ssrn and on other sites. I am trying to make sure that readers out here are aware of my contributions. I last tried back in Nov 2017 and could not figure it out. I see scholars with their papers listed and nice download links and download counts. That is what I would like to learn how to do. In my humble opinion, this is not spam or self promotion. We professors send our students to Wikipedia all the time to find research articles. It is all about being apart of the conversation and adding my contributions.

What is the process for adding my research articles (step by step)? Thanks in advance! Dr. Clovia Hamilton

Please help me with...

Cloviahamilton (talk) 22:04, 18 March 2019 (UTC)


 * It's strongly advised that you do not cite your own research like this; you'll understand that this would give the impression of a conflict of interest and of self-promotion. Surely you, as an expert in those fields, are familiar with the scholarly literature beyond your own work and can contribute to Wikipedia in manifold ways that avoid giving such an impression.
 * I can't quite imagine that we have download links, much less "download counts". If we have them (can you provide an example?), they should be removed.
 * If there is some factoid for which your own research is the only suitable reference, then it's considered best practice to not add the content and the source yourself but to propose the change on the respective article's talk page and to leave it to uninvolved editors to decide whether that's an improvement. Please keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a discussion forum - there is no such "conversation" here. Huon (talk) 22:53, 18 March 2019 (UTC)