User talk:Tom55Stone

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Hello, Tom55Stone, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Minotaur, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Howicus (Did I mess up?) 19:25, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
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Is it therefore impossible for an author to insert a mention of their own work?


 * Looking more closely at your contributions now, I have a better idea of what you were referring to. No, Wikipedia is not a place for self promotion. There was also no context to that addition, and it was blatantly promotional. If there's a valid reason for the inclusion of the work (as in a citation to support actual content) and it is published by a reliable third party, then it should be discussed on the talk page, and as I said, a COI notice given. See our Guideline on Questionable and Self-Published Sources. To understand what Wikipedia is NOT, especially in term of promotion, see our policy on soapboxing and self-promotion. Hope that helps. Quinto Simmaco (talk) 18:16, 16 April 2015 (UTC)


 * The references inserted again at Minotaur to your own book represent conflict of interest (WP:COI). Especially since this is not a significant academic source, and thus not relevant to sourcing the article, inclusion of it is not really appropriate.  I realize you feel it could be a source of interest to others, but your judgment on that is not unbiased.  Given all the ridiculous cruft in the "Popular Culture" section (which needs a thorough spring cleaning), it may seem silly to remove this entry -- but you're not the right person to be adding it.


 * Also, you flagged your edit as "minor": it's not a minor edit (i.e., one introducing or deleting no content; essentially a typographical change), so your flagging of it as minor will make people think you're trying to sneak this in.


 * (Added): Can you point to a review in a reputable source (like NYTimes Book Reviews, not web sources like Amazon)? That would help.


 * -- Elphion (talk) 18:55, 17 April 2015 (UTC)