User talk:Franksmith2020

September 2021
Hello, I'm DVdm. Your recent edit(s) to the page Conservation of energy‎ appear to have added incorrect information, so they have been reverted for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. - DVdm (talk) 10:50, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Franksmith2020. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 16:50, 13 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Good morning.
 * Thank you for your message.
 * So, are you saying that I may not add citations into Wiki about technical papers that I wrote and I may ONLY cite other people's papers?
 * 2. If I add technical content, based on my own knowledge and experience and then add a citation to technical papers that I had previously published, is that also not allowed? Thus - I can add the content, but OTHERS need to add other citations to other technical papers to confirm my technical content that I added?
 * Appreciate your assistance.
 * Henk Franksmith2020 (talk) 17:07, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) It would be best to cite others. If you need to cite yourself for some reason, propose the source on the talk page rather than making the edit yourself.
 * 2) You should not add content based on your own knowledge and experience (see WP:V).
 * As a subject matter expert, you are no doubt familiar with a wide range of sources of diverse authorship, please make use of that knowledge to edit in accord with Wikipedia's norms and practices. Thanks. - MrOllie (talk) 17:29, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello. You are correct.  You do not cite your own work.  The problem is that it is hard to be objective about your own work. However, there a work around.  You open a talk page discussion.  Reveal that you suggest that a citation to your own work would be helpful and then request that some other editor add the material.  If you cannot get one other editor to add the citation, then you do not add it.    Constant314 (talk) 17:33, 13 May 2022 (UTC)