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April 2020

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  Hello, Togue1971. 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 a 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.

MrOllie (talk) 19:15, 28 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Please use appropriate citations

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Thank you for your contribution to Salmon However, it is usual to cite additions made to Wikipedia with a reliable source. Please read carefully the Wikipedia policy on verifiability. If you do not cite your additions with appropriate sources (and preferably not sources authored by yourself or your working associates) then they have little value on Wikipedia and are liable to be removed. When adding something to a Wikipedia article, the most difficult and important task is often finding an appropriate reliable source. Thanks. — Epipelagic (talk) 23:03, 3 May 2020 (UTC)Reply