User talk:V. Macionis, MD

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Be careful with citing yourself
See WP:REFSPAM and WP:COPYVIO.

Basically, if you're only adding a reference you wrote just to add a reference you wrote without significantly improving the article, we're going to treat it like advertising -- which we don't allow.

Also, it looks like you just copied and pasted text from your source into the article. Even if you are the original author, everyone else who edits the page after you is not so you're forcing them to commit copyright violations and plagiarism by adding that text. Ian.thomson (talk) 20:13, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising. Just be careful next time A.R.M. 21:24, 12 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Once again, you were linking to your journal article apparently just to promote it.
 * The intro for the article is generally a summary of the body of the article. If what you're adding to the intro is not in the body, then it probably doesn't belong.
 * Maybe you should try editing articles not related to plastic surgery and get the hang of that before trying to edit in a field where you have a conflict of interest. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:27, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, you need to stop marking your edits as "minor." Minor edits are for small things that don't significantly change the meaning or structure of the article, such as grammar or spelling fixes. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:28, 12 November 2018 (UTC)

November 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in Plastic surgery, disturbs uniformity among articles and may cause readability or accessibility problems. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 08:31, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

February 2024
Hello, V. Macionis, MD. 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) 15:48, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


 * You've been warned about this type of thing before - please take this seriously. MrOllie (talk) 15:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC)