User talk:Lrholzer

May 2024
Hello, Lrholzer. 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) 21:51, 19 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your message. My goal in adding the articles I had published about piano music of composers Ellen Zwilich and William Bolcom and Florence Price is to promote interest in these composers' piano music.  The journal Piano & Keyboard is no longer in print, but the pieces by the composers are still in print.  Similarly, the article on piano music by Florence Price in Clavier Companion, the journal changed names, making it harder to find.  Adding the citation on Wikipedia makes it easier for the articles to come to the attention of pianists who may be interested in buying scores and performing pieces by these composers.  Is that still considered to be a conflict of interest?  Lrholzer Lrholzer (talk) 22:19, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is still considered to be a conflict of interest. MrOllie (talk) 22:23, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you for clarifying. Lrholzer (talk) 22:26, 19 May 2024 (UTC)