User talk:James Reiher

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December 2023
Hello, James Reiher. 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.

MrOllie (talk) 03:29, 8 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note Mr Ollie.
 * I appreciate what you are saying. I have indeed added a couple of peer review academic journal articles of my own, because they directly impact the topics being talked about, and what they advocate or demonstrate has not been fleshed out or even mentioned in the articles concerned. And they are more recent sources on some of the topics being discussed.
 * But I certainly appreciate what you are saying about academic integrity and avoiding conflict of interest. Since I am not getting anything from citing them (I do cite some other material too), I do not see any conflict of interest, just rather informing the reader of other views and more recent peer reviewed academic scholarship on the different topics.
 * Is it really a problem if I want to have recent peer reviewed journal articles of my own, noted, when they take the conversation in different directions, or offer alternative views? Some writers who promote traditional views might not like being challenged by new ideas or new arguments that support alternative existing theories, but... so what? So long as the material has been peer reviewed and accepted by reputable journals, isn't that enough?
 * At the same time, I appreciate your situation. I don't mind being a occasional outside 'editor' and not a member of the recognised 'editorial family' if that is better. But I will take your advice on board and include other works as well in future.
 * Finally, I am very impressed at the correspondence I am receiving. It is refreshing to see such prompt responses to new editorial insertions and such focused follow up to make sure things are above board and from sound source material.
 * Yours sincerely
 * Jim Reiher James Reiher (talk) 04:29, 8 December 2023 (UTC)