User talk:Vmkern

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Self-citing

It's very poor form to add citations to your own materials in Wikipedia. It's usually impossible to tell if the edit was made in good-faith or if it's naked self-promotion. It's a clear conflict of interest and it's best to suggest or request that the material be added by posting in the article's Talk page so that other editors can evaluate the potential source and determine for themselves it will add to the article.

Additionally, it's not acceptable to edit war. After you make an edit and another editor reverts that edit, you should next open a discussion with that editor. This is summarized as "bold, revert, discuss." Please revert your last edit and open a discussion in the article's Talk page.

Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 01:50, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your interest and for the new (to me at least) information that "It's very poor form to add citations to your own materials in Wikipedia".

I will certainly not dispute the insertion of a reference on Wikipedia, nor will I take it to any other forum; I'm going back to the peer reviewed literature.

I find it very insulting to accuse someone of self-promotion with no argument about the quality of the reference and the context in which it was used.

"It's very poor", "it's not acceptable". I guess Jimmy Wales' succession is well under way.

Goodbye forever.

Vmkern (talk) 02:25, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]