User talk:Hclschneider

July 2023
Hello, Hclschneider. 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 request edit to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

MrOllie (talk) 20:50, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Before adding a category to an article, as you did to Robert Allinson, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. The category being added must already exist, and must be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 22:24, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 22:32, 7 July 2023 (UTC)


 * This is not promotional material. It is a biography of a living scholar and his contributions to his field. Hclschneider (talk) 22:34, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * It is pretty obviously non-neutral, and therefore does not meet Wikipedia's content policies. Are you associated with Professor Allinson or Soka University in some way? MrOllie (talk) 22:35, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm not associated with Professor Allinson. Regardless, most of what you deleted were not edits that I had made. I added roughly three or four hyperlinks to pre-existing text on this page, so I'm confused as to how that minor edit prompted the deletion of the entire page? Hclschneider (talk) 22:52, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That was half of what I asked. Are you associated with Soka University? The promotional version of the page never should have been added in the first place. Your minor edit popped it to the top of the activity list, but it was no doubt going to be edited down as soon as someone noticed. MrOllie (talk) 23:02, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I assumed the two were a linked question! I'm not associated with Soka University either. That makes sense, all the same, it does feel like a large cut to the page and I'd assume there were parts of the page that aren't promotional that could have been spared the edit. Hclschneider (talk) 23:09, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The whole thing was promotional from top to bottom, including improper use of primary sources and links to ecommerce sites. It was improperly added in the first place by a representative of the university who was violating Wikipedia's terms of service. MrOllie (talk) 23:13, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I reread it and I do agree that it was pretty promotional but a lot of the information in there was biographical and could be edited to be non-promotional. I might go back and edit it to be non-promotional but retain a lot of the original information (I'm not sure what that might be, but probably important publications and contributions to the field) because I do think the information has value as an objective biography on a living scholar. Hclschneider (talk) 23:29, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Articles must be written based on secondary sources, and none of that content had any. Editing that content would be a waste of your time - the end result would be very likely deleted. I would suggest you do something more productive. WikiProject Women in Red is a good place to start if you need a topic. MrOllie (talk) 23:33, 7 July 2023 (UTC)