User talk:DescartesResearch

Wikipedia and copyright
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Self-aware computing (December 3)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

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Robert McClenon (talk) 17:53, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

February 2021
Hello, DescartesResearch. 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.

Scientific articles should mainly reference review articles to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

Editing in this way is also 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) and the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Finally, please be aware that the editing community highly values expert contributors – please see WP:EXPERT. 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 thread on the article talk page and add requestedit to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

MrOllie (talk) 14:00, 27 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Dear Mr. Ollie,

I refer to your statement above "...the editing community highly values expert contributors... I do hope you will consider contributing more broadly." My intention was to update the content on benchmarking. In fact, I was also planning to write significant amount of new content and add it step-by-step covering developments in the field over the last two decades. I am a scientist (full professor) working in this area for the last 20 years. The current Wikipedia information on benchmarking is way outdated, inconsistent, incomplete, and reading it feels like reading a newspaper from the 1990s while desperately trying to learn about the latest news. I wanted to help to bring it up-to-date and complement it with developments from the last 20 years; however, to be honest, given your comments, I am not sure how I can do this. On the one hand, it is expected that everything should be backed up by references and when quoting something, a proper citation of the source should be included. On the other hand, when I try to add a reference, it is immediately discarded as "self-promotion" or "citation to research published by a small group of researchers". I am not sure how to remedy this, the source I added to the literature is a result of a 5 year joint work at SPEC (the largest non-for-profit computer benchmarking organization and community) in the writing of which more than 40 benchmarking experts from academia and industry were involved - see https://research.spec.org/news/single-view/article/new-textbook-on-systems-benchmarking.html. If you consider this to be an unrealiable source, I am not sure how I can help. The current page references a book from 1993 as a main source for further reading... I appreciate your efforts to avoid Wikipedia becomming a platform for "spamming"; but on the other hand, if you simply block everything as potential spam, I don't see how the content can keep being refined and updated to ensure high quality. With this policy, my comments above about the state of the current Wikipedia content on benchmarking are not a surprise... As I said, I would be more than happy to contribute to revising all content around systems benchmarking if you would accept and respect these arguments as explanation/justification for my latest updates.

DescartesResearch (talk) 14:00, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
 * , As an expert you are no doubt familiar with work by a large range of people, including people who have nothing to do with you professionally. Why not cite some of them, instead of your own work? MrOllie (talk) 15:43, 27 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Dear Mr. Ollie, I was citing the latest definition of a "benchmark" taken from the Springer book, which as I explained is endorsed by SPEC, the largest organization on computer benchmarking. I don't have another reference for an up-to-date and widely supported definition, so I used this. Of course, if you would have allowed me to continue working on this page refining the content, I would have cited many works from the community beyond this single reference. In fact, my last article included more than 40 references from other researchers... DescartesResearch (talk) 14:00, 27 Febrary 2021 (UTC)


 * Dear Mr. Ollie, I saw that you have undone my changes from last year to both Autonomic computing and Self-awareness labelling them with "rm apparent COI / self-promotion / refspam". I appreciate your efforts to avoid misusing Wikipedia for self-promotion or spam. Nonetheless, I kindly ask you to consider the following verifiable facts that clearly show why this is not the case: The content you deleted contributed an up-to-date comprehensive survey I wrote for Wikipedia investing several days to summarize the state-of-the-art and literature on "self-aware computing systems", which is a research area that has grown significantly in the last two decades spanning several disciplines and domains. I cited 40 reliable scientific articles with a total of 117 UNIQUE authors published in top journals like IEEE, ACM, Nature Neuroscience, AAAI, IFAC, etc. Most of these authors I don't know personally (although I am familiar with their research); they span several research communities (computer science, engineering, neuroscience, phychology,...) given the interdisciplinary nature of the topic. I followed Wikipedia guidelines and made an effort to provide a comprehensive and also compact summary of the field backed up by peer-reviewed scientific articles that are trusted by the scientific community. So what may have initially appeared as "self-promotion" or "citation to research published by a small group of researchers" is a misunderstanding. The Wikipedia content I mentioned is also linked to from other Wikipedia articles that after the deletion now contain broken links. Also Wikipedia "self-aware computing" forwards to "autonomic computing" which no longer contains anything on the topic. So I kindly ask you to restore my updates. Thanks! DescartesResearch (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2021 (UTC)


 * That content was largely off topic for the articles that you added it to. A *short* summary (like, a single short paragraph) might be supportable at Autonomic computing, but as a conflicted editor you should work that out on the talk page in advance, and any such draft should likely avoid any self citations. - MrOllie (talk) 13:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Dear Mr. Ollie, Thanks for your reply and sorry to bother you again. I understand that the content (given the depth of the coverage) is a bit off topic, so it should either be shortened or moved out to a separate article. Whatever the next steps, they should be discussed on Talk:Autonomic computing. Since the removal of the content was triggered by you, I would highly appreciate it if you could post the reason ("content largely off topic, should be shortened or moved out") to Talk:Autonomic computing. This would provide a basis for discussion at the talk page and further steps. Also, if you could add a note to the deletion comment (which is currently "rm apparent COI / self-promotion / refspam") that would help. Thanks again for your feedback and for your time. DescartesResearch (talk) 8:37, 7 March 2021 (UTC)