User talk:NetworkScholar

December 2017
Hello, I'm Mahveotm. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Health literacy, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Mahveotm (talk) 07:58, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, NetworkScholar. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 09:41, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification. I'm an academic scholar, who works solely for an academic institute. None of my edits are aimed at promoting the colleague I'm working at (or the specific department I'm affiliated with). I'll read carefully the guidelines you provided prior to making any additional edits. NetworkScholar (talk) 10:13, 21 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for responding, I appreciate it. You may also find No original research useful, as this is often a stumbling block when directly citing studies. I will also leave a boilerplate welcome message, but if you have any questions, feel free to post them to my talk page, and I will do my bets to answer them. Grayfell (talk) 00:09, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

July 2023
Hello, NetworkScholar. 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) 10:40, 13 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for this comment, I only added in references that I found to be relevant. But I will make sure to extend the scope of papers I suggest as relevant references.  NetworkScholar (talk) 10:45, 13 July 2023 (UTC)