User talk:Up2019387

January 2024
Hello, Up2019387. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to sources you may be affiliated with.

Editing in this way is a violation of the policy against using Wikipedia for promotion and is a form of conflict of interest. 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.

If you wish to continue contributing, please first consider citing other reliable secondary sources such as review articles that were written by other researchers in your field and that are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite sources for which you may have a conflict of interest, 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) 14:56, 14 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi MrOllie, I haven't self cited anything, as I am not at all affiliated with the book I am citing. I need to cite something for a University submission, and it does relate to the topic but the specific citation has nothing to do with me. I am happy to delete it after my submission but need to add it to be able to not fail my assignment. Up2019387 (talk) 23:52, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Please let your professor know that assigning all their students to cite the same book on Wikipedia is extremely improper and we consider this organized activity to be reference spamming. I sympathize with your predicament, but your assignment is so unreasonable that Wikipedia policy must be violated for you to complete it, and that is not fair to either you or to Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 00:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)