CKChaneca

Formats

Hi, thanks for the contributions. Could you possibly follow the citation format used in the article? That would be much appreciated. Dates are like 21 June 2016. Names are like Smith, J.B. and citations are like {{cite web |url=http://www.abc.com |title=A Paper |author=Bloggs, J. |publisher=ABC |accessdate=22 June 2016}}. Many thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:56, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello CKChaneca, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Center of origin has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 20:08, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

October 2021

Hello, CKChaneca. 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) 17:29, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

• I've looked over some of what CKChaneca and all of it so far - without exception - looks good to me. @MrOllie: is it going to be a problem if I start adding back in the ones that I've looked at? Anyway CKChaneca I especially suggest {{ping}}ing me, {{ping|Invasive Spices}}, if you do want to suggest edits on the Talk: pages. I'll probably say yes every time. We certainly need the content you're adding - it's just not allowed if you're citing yourself, as MrOllie pointed out. (And if you're confused what [[WP:MEDCOI]] has to do with it: It doesn't. I've looked at your subject area and you're as far from that as you can get, so don't worry about that part.) Invasive Spices (talk) 18:22, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

  As long as it is passing through a neutral editor I have no issues, though do look carefully - some of this was (near) identical text pasted into multiple articles, we should probably be linking rather than duplicating. MrOllie (talk) 20:11, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

• I see. Alright I'll do that. Invasive Spices (talk) 17:16, 27 October 2021 (UTC)