User talk:Mx the Gray

August 2023
Hello, Mx the Gray. 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) 17:23, 19 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry my bad but the additions were actually relevant to the specific point where I added them. I was also explicit in describing the modification thus there was no attempt to spam but to add a relevant contribution. Note that I was not using any qualifying word to promote my work. I simply added applications that were missing. I will do as you suggest and start a new section on the talk page. Mx the Gray (talk) 18:00, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Relevance is necessary but not sufficient for inclusion. MrOllie (talk) 18:02, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * So how can one add something relevant that is missing if that something refers to their own work? What is the sufficient condition? In this case I am not trying to cite my own work I am adding applications that are missing. Mx the Gray (talk) 18:08, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * As a subject matter expert, you are no doubt familiar with a range of sources of diverse authorship. Cite one that you didn't write. If you are really the only person who has ever written about a topic, chances are high it is too niche to be included in Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 18:24, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry but it does not work in this case. The whole list of applications in this wiki page is made of niche individual works that use p-boxes. Some have nearly no citations and yet they are listed there. Chances are high that they were added by authors or friend of the authors with anonymous id. Anyway, up to you, I added the request to the Talk page. I think it is nice to show new applications when they emerge. Mx the Gray (talk) 18:37, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
 * If you have found other stuff that doesn't belong here, the answer is to remove the stuff that shouldn't be here, not to make the problem worse by adding more. MrOllie (talk) 18:47, 19 August 2023 (UTC)