User talk:ScholarCode

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April 2022
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. BrigadierG (talk) 21:01, 19 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I am not adding extraneous links, only ones based on my reading which appear appropriate to the articles. I will also refer you to your talk page, and the note by Mewnst (talk) on 26 December 2021 (UTC) which points out that you are deleting useful links and are overweight unrealized newer areas. --ScholarCode (talk) 13:55, 22 April 2022 (UTC)


 * I take issue with using my old, petty disagreements with Brigadier as an excuse to promote a handful of WP:PREPRINT sources. I do not approve of how you are trying to add "useful links" to pages. Mewnst (talk) 23:20, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, ScholarCode. 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.

Scientific articles should mainly reference review articles to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

Editing in this way is also 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) and the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Finally, please be aware that the editing community highly values expert contributors – please see WP:EXPERT. 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 thread on the article talk page and add requestedit to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

MrOllie (talk) 20:59, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

My objective is not to promote any particular author, the accusation is absurd. I will keep citing a variety of authors I read whose papers help with referencing wikipedia pages. ScholarCode (talk) 19:07, 28 May 2022 (UTC)