User talk:WingoWinston

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Happy editing! :Jay8g [ V•T•E ] 18:20, 3 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi,
 * Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll try my best to be a good Samaritan. WingoWinston (talk) 18:31, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024
Hello, WingoWinston. 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) 21:42, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * My apologies, I wasn't aware of the strictness with citations. I won't repeat that error.
 * I do think however the discussion on the arguments for an evolutionary origin is an exception. That included many papers which contain evolutionary contexts/evidence for and against the evolution of Lévy flight foraging — a discussion which is surprisingly absent for an article on a hypothesis which posits an evolutionary origin.
 * All those articles should be appropriate ( or "highly cited", whatever that means when there are multiple fields involved ) save the American Naturalist and European Physical Journal E. Although, Reynolds is cited several times already in that topic, and it felt appropriate to include that paper, anyways. WingoWinston (talk) 22:01, 8 May 2024 (UTC)