User talk:Th van den Broek

Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!


Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED). We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:


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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! &mdash; soupvector (talk) 04:06, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Self-citation
It appears that you might be inserting citations of your own work into immunology articles - please realize that that could be considered citation spam. Until you have a better sense of the encyclopedia, you might want to stick to citing other peoples' work, and use the Talk pages to ask whether one of your articles would be appropriate for citation. The goal should be the most appropriate reference (which might be yours!) but self-citation makes the reader wonder whether it's there for other reasons. &mdash; soupvector (talk) 04:10, 13 March 2018 (UTC)