Mercede Erfanian

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Hello, Mercede Erfanian, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Misophonia, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Welcome to Wikipedia from the Wikiproject Medicine!

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine

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One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board!

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Feel free to drop a note below if you have any questions or problems. I wish you all the best here in Wikipedia! Jytdog (talk) 17:50, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

WP:SELFCITE, WP:REFSPAM

Your contributions to date seem to be all about adding references to papers by Mercede Erfanian.

While we love experts here (see WP:EXPERT) we do not love experts who use their editing privileges to promote their own work, which is a violation of the policy against abusing WP for promotion. This is also considered a form of spam -- see WP:REFSPAM. Please also see WP:SELFCITE and WP:MEDCOI.

We do love experts, and it would wonderful if you would consider contributing more broadly. But please, enough of the refspamming. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 17:54, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Edit warring

Your recent editing history at Misophonia shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Jytdog (talk) 22:44, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

copy response here, that was left on my talk page in this diff Jytdog (talk) 14:29, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi,

The other day I received a threatening message from you which I did not like at all. I accused me of " edit war" that was based on a false assumption.

First by this message I want you to stop sending me threatening and childish messages when you have no idea what is happening and try to find out first.

Second, I neither change nor tried to change others materials on Wikipedia but tried to add some evidence-based materials to an incomplete page on misophonia which did not work due to technical problems.

Third, if you are responsible for a public platform like Wikipedia, you need to be way more patient with people not everyone is Einstein like you!!!

Greetings — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mercede Erfanian (talk • contribs) 06:50, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi User:Mercede Erfanian - if by "received messages" you mean the notes on this page, messages like this, are what this page is for. If by "receive messages" you mean emails from Wikipedia, that would be, because your preferences are set to receive emails when certain things happen. You can change your preferences by clicking on "preferences" near the top right corner of every page in Wikipedia when you are logged in.

About "edit warring", you did start to edit war - you boldly added some content here, and after I removed it, you added it back.

The Misophonia page has a long and unfortunate history of the few people who are active in the field, coming to WP to cite their own work. (I am taking your username at face value; if that is incorrect please say so). You can see what I mean about people coming here to cite their own work, in the list at the bottom of the beige box at the "talk page" of the article -- Talk:Misophonia.

That said, I am glad you have started to discuss.

Wikipedia has a whole slew of what we call "policies and guidelines". They are explained some in the "welcome" message above. If you want an all-in-one description, please read User:Jytdog/How. It is important to go slow and take time to learn.

Happy to discuss - please reply here, to keep the discussion in one place. Jytdog (talk) 14:38, 11 May 2018 (UTC)