User talk:Dirk van den Heuvel

January 2021
Hello, Dirk van den Heuvel. 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) 15:40, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

To Mr Ollie
I am really clueless if this is the right thing to do, to write something here.

I want to reply to the comments of someone named Mr. Ollie (?). But I don't know how. It is the first time I am here at Wikipedia.

I must say I felt really not welcome by your message. I am an amateur and you accuse me of all sorts of things.

I am a scholar (TU Delft, the Netherlands) and a recognized expert in my field. And I know that Wikipedia is used as a reference of course, also by my students. What I added was mostly updating. You talk of spamming.

If this is the attitude that is characteristic than I will stop my contributions and corrections for Wikipedia. There are many many errors in Wikipedia, and if you don't want to make use of my expertise than that would be really a loss. I will stick then with our own university repositories.

Good bye, Dirk

To Mr Ollie second message
I noticed that some of my references were taken away, esp. the open acces (!) dissertation. This is ridiculous, because it offers so much further reading for Wikipedia users

I will quite my account because this is too painful. Around my topic there is so much popular nonsense being circulated and you don't allow me to at least offer an extra source.

Dirk