User talk:GaffinetB

Hello, GaffinetB. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to sources you may be affiliated with.

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

If you wish to continue contributing, please first consider citing other reliable secondary sources such as review articles that were written by other researchers in your field and that are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite sources for which you may have a conflict of interest, please start a new section on the article's talk page and add {{Edit COI}} to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

MrOllie (talk) 11:35, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Dear MrOllie.

Thank you for the guidance. My primary intent is to contribute and structure the Wikipedia article in question. The topic suffers from a lot of marketing buzz that shadows the consensus from the scientific community. Consequently, newcomers to the field would benefit from a well structured and sources Wikipedia article. As I am indeed active in the field I have a greater affinity with my own domain of research, leading to the conflict of interest.

As a novice contributor I clearly have gaps in my knowledge on Wikipedia etiquette. The conflict of interest rule appears highly relevant and I am thankful editors like you enforce it. I will follow your advice to use the talk page and let other editors judge the merits of including the citations in question.

I wish to respectfully disagree with the use of secondary sources in cases where the primary source is available and more accurate. GaffinetB (talk) 16:22, 3 July 2025 (UTC)