User talk:NMarks2

November 2022
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Internal audit, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 22:33, 21 November 2022 (UTC)


 * There are several sources for what I have written. Please tell me what you are questioning and I will add sources. NMarks2 (talk) 22:35, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Internal audit. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 22:57, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Also please have a look at WP:COI, you shouldn't be using yourself as a source. - MrOllie (talk) 22:59, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I did neither. The sources are now added, and most are already there (IIA).''
 * I happen to be an authority on this topic, a member of the IIA's Hall of Distinguished Practitioners and a retired member of IIA International Committees who wrote official guidance on what is written here.
 * I am sure you mean well by your comments, but my edits (and I could have made many more as some of the original content is incorrect (such as that the internal audit departments by law must report to the audit committee) are neither original research nor novel syntheses. NMarks2 (talk) 23:04, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * You clearly cited your own self published book as a source, per WP:RS and WP:COI you absolutely should not do that. MrOllie (talk) 23:06, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for removing that citation NMarks2 (talk) 23:07, 21 November 2022 (UTC)