User talk:Devharsh

conflict of interest and due weight
Hi @Devharsh, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I reverted your recent additions to Approximation theory and Function approximation. While I could imagine a brief mention of the topic of your 2023 paper in these articles in a way that does a fair and balanced survey of the literature, the result of inserting this material seems problematic to me because the length and detail, in a pair of articles which are otherwise quite short and underdeveloped, implies that this single paper is more important than everything previously written in the field. See Due weight.

Researchers and experts are more than welcome to add material to Wikipedia, and even in some cases cite their own work, if that work is the most important or relevant source on some aspect of the topic. However, keep in mind that the purpose of Wikipedia is not self promotion, and citing yourself is a Conflict of interest (see especially § Citing yourself, cf. also Citation spam). Usually when expert editors add mentions of their own work, it is in the context of describing/surveying the broad range of literature about a topic. Sometimes if an editor is e.g. the main recent biographer of some obscure historical figure, or wrote the most important survey paper about some mathematical topic, it's difficult to avoid extensively citing their own work, and this is fine when done carefully. But that's a quite rare and unusual situation. More commonly, expert editors try to err on the side of citing themselves in a limited way if at all.

I do hope you'll decide to stick around and improve Wikipedia articles about approximation theory. They're mostly underdeveloped and need a lot of love. It would be great to have a clear and moderately complete survey of the field here. –jacobolus (t) 21:27, 16 July 2024 (UTC)