User talk:GoetzFJ

September 2023
Hello, GoetzFJ. 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.

Editing in this way is 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); the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Scientific articles should prefer secondary sources to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

The editing community highly values expert contributors, so 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 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.

MrOllie (talk) 13:12, 1 September 2023 (UTC)


 * To whom it may concern, thank you for pointing out this violation of the Wikipedia Guidelines! This was not my original intention at all. I was trying to update the articles and, as I think was quite obvious, benefit from my efforts. If you look at the research described, I am obviously not the first to do this. However, in light of your message, I will update the obedience articles in due course and ignore my own Nature publication on the topic. Aside from my own publication, all of the articles I cited meet the requirements you outline in your message. The "small group of researchers" was not so small after all. There have been a lot of developments in the last decade, and it is a shame that authors like Haslam and Reicher, who currently dominate the psychological discourse on obedience, are not once mentioned in the associated Wikipedia article. All the best, GoetzFJ GoetzFJ (talk) 14:15, 1 September 2023 (UTC)