User talk:Ethansmith1

January 2024
Hello, I'm AntiDionysius. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Pickleball have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 13:47, 22 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello, AntiDionysius
 * Thanks for sharing the sources, and thanks for your kind response.
 * I will follow the policies.
 * Ethan Smith Ethansmith1 (talk) 14:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Please do not re-add the content in question. Wikipedia is not a place to promote your writing. AntiDionysius (talk) 14:33, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Ethansmith1. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to sources you may be affiliated with.

Editing in this way is a violation of the policy against using Wikipedia for promotion and is a form of conflict of interest. The editing community considers excessive self-citing to be a form of spamming on Wikipedia (WP:REFSPAM); the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

If you wish to continue contributing, please first consider citing other reliable secondary sources such as review articles that were written by other researchers in your field and that are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite sources for which you may have a conflict of interest, please start a new section on the article's talk page and add Edit COI to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

AntiDionysius (talk) 15:19, 22 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello AntiDionysius,
 * Thanks for your kind response, I will do the same as you said.
 * thanks
 * Ethan Ethansmith1 (talk) 15:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * Please review my topic and check my article from below the link.
 * my goal is to provide quality and helpful information about pickleball not to promote my content.
 * Thanks Ethansmith1 (talk) 15:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Then link content written by someone else, with which you have zero connection. AntiDionysius (talk) 16:11, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising. -- VViking Talk Edits 15:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Notification: Blocked
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for spamming. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding  below this notice. Materialscientist (talk) 06:30, 23 January 2024 (UTC)