Sooncolumbia

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Sooncolumbia, good luck, and have fun. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:57, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Chris Troutman (talk) 01:57, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Sooncolumbia, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi Sooncolumbia! Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from experienced editors like ChamithN (talk). Visit the Teahouse We hope to see you there! Delivered by HostBot on behalf of the Teahouse hosts 16:04, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

January 2019

Hello, Sooncolumbia. 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 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.

GermanJoe (talk) 10:12, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

• Frankly, Wikipedia is no venue to increase your citation count or to popularize your own research and publications. Per WP:SELFCITE please suggest any further additions from this author on the articles' respective talkpages instead of adding them yourself. Any further similar additions without prior talkpage consensus will be reported. GermanJoe (talk) 10:12, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising. See also WP:BOOKSPAM and WP:ADVOCACY for more information. GermanJoe (talk) 20:09, 27 January 2019 (UTC)