Communitarian703

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Communitarian703. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 23:29, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2019

Hello, Communitarian703. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to research published by a small group of researchers.

Scientific articles should mainly reference review articles to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

Editing in this way is also a violation of the policy against using Wikipedia for promotion and is a form of conflict of interest in Wikipedia – please see WP:SELFCITE and WP:MEDCOI. The editing community considers excessive self-citing to be a form of spamming on Wikipedia (WP:REFSPAM) and the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Finally, please be aware that the editing community highly values expert contributors – please see WP:EXPERT. I do hope you will consider contributing more broadly. If you wish to contribute, please first consider citing review articles written by other researchers in your field and which are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite your own research, please start a new thread on the article talk page and add {{requestedit}} to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

MrOllie (talk) 16:36, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Help me!

Please help me with... Hello,

We were wondering if there is a Wikipedia page where it would be appropriate to cite anything from the following two articles: "Are You a Candidate for Donald Trump's Coronavirus Vaccine?" and "The Coronavirus Will Be With Us For Years to Come."

Thanks for any help you can provide! Communitarian703 (talk) 13:37, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi Communitarian703! Can I ask why you want to add those specific citations to Wikipedia article(s)? If it's because you feel they are useful reliable, independent sources that contain information not currently present in a certain Wikipedia article or articles, then go to those specific Wikipedia pages, and be bold and add them yourself. Both sources you've listed are by Amitai Etzioni (and one co-authored by Ruth Etzioni) from The National Interest, which isn't specifically a reliable source for medicine as far as I'm aware; but they may find use in articles/sections to do with the social/political impact of COVID-19 somewhere, or about the COVID-19 vaccine. If however, (as I've seen the messages above about COIs) you are looking to add them because you've got some sort of connection to The National Interest, or the Etzionis, I would suggest you read WP:SELFCITE, and the message above this from @MrOllie. If you still think they could be useful as a source of information somewhere, I would suggest posting something at a relevant talk page, such as Talk:Coronavirus disease 2019, Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19, and asking other editors what use they think could come from those sources. If you need any other help, you can , or just leave a message on my talk page. Seagull123 Φ 14:05, 12 August 2020 (UTC)