User talk:DrEthanMD

Reference spamming
Hi DrEthanMD. Most of your contributions to date seem to be all about adding references to papers by the same group of scientists.

While we love experts here (see WP:EXPERT) we do not love experts who use their editing privileges to promote their own work, which is a violation of the policy against abusing WP for promotion. This is also considered a form of spam -- see WP:REFSPAM. Please also see WP:SELFCITE and WP:MEDCOI.

We do love experts, and it would wonderful if you would consider contributing more broadly. But please, enough of the refspamming. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 05:52, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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– the WikiProject Medicine team Jytdog (talk) 05:52, 15 November 2018 (UTC)