User talk:Dr.Ma NG

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Hello, Dr.Ma NG, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Dental implant, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Grayfell (talk) 05:11, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Grayfell and thank you for your response! It is the first time I have contributed to the Wikipedia and I am quite excited, yet still learning on the procedures. I have made some additions in entries that I have professional expertise, namely the dental implant, edentulism and Mucositis , Peri-implantitis and Computer assisted surgery. The references I have used are of 3 different types, peer-reviewed publications from Pubmed, Consensus papers from Pub-med, non peer reviewed articles of translational research from the scientific blog of respective authors. I have done so not in the aim to spam, promote or advertise, but mainly to allow multiple sources all from the same scientific authors, both in the form of "raw" published research as well as translational and popular science. The documents cited in mattheos.net do not promote an event, service or product but rather elaborate on respective published concepts by the authors. Nevertheless, I understand the use of references resides in the discretion of the editorial process of Wikipedia. Please let me know if I can be of any further help!

Dr.Ma NG (talk) 06:53, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for clarifying.

Please carefully review Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Citing yourself. As all of your edits cited Nikos Mattheos, this does appear excessive, but feel free to propose changes on the articles' talk pages.

I also strongly recommend you review Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine). As that guideline explains, we avoid primary sources (such as "raw" research). This is especially important for medical content.

More generally, we do not want multiple sources tied to the same author. Ideally, we want multiple independent sources from multiple authors. If a perspective is mainly coming from one author, that is often an indicator that it is undue weight for the larger topic. As an encyclopedia, our goal is generally to summarize more broadly

I hope that's helpful. Grayfell (talk) 21:03, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Grayfell,

Thank you for your elaborate response! Indeed I think I need to dive deeper into the writing culture of Wikipedia at this stage. I will check the sources you mention and see how I can best contribute!

best regards

Dr.Ma NG (talk) 06:37, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]