User talk:Editorroth

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Supplemental bibliography?
Hi. If you're Dr. Irving Rothman, I just wanted to let you know that it's not always a good idea to add a whole list of additional sources written by yourself into an article. Two reasons for this: one there's kind of a conflict of interest—and some people will see it as you trying to promote your work, although I doubt that's really the case—and two, we really only need the most relevant and most informational sources for readers. Sometimes, articles will have a "further reading" section, but usually, bibliographies are only for works cited in the Wikipedia article itself. It's probably OK if you add one or two entries in your bibliography to articles if they really will help the reader get a better understanding of the topic, but imagine if every professor decided to add his/her own supplemental bibliography to Wikipedia—the list of publications would be longer than the actual article! Now, if you want to cite your own published work as sources in articles, sure, then it's fine to add them in the bibliography, but in that case, just keep in mind the conflict of interest that will still exist, and be careful with how exclusively you use your own sources.

And ... if you not Dr. Rothman ... just keep in mind the part about not filling articles up with a single-author bibliography.

Regards, / ƒETCH COMMS  /  23:20, 25 August 2011 (UTC)