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Citing your own work

Hi. Re your edits to Edgeworth Manor and Grand Butler of France, please see WP:SELFCITE. Tacyarg (talk) 22:06, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in Domesday DNA and I appreciate your general concern for the integrity of these pages, but no violations were made with these citations. The assertions made in these entries are synthesized from many individual sources and are entirely novel facts and conclusions that are only made in Domesday DNA. Domesday DNA was peer reviewed by experts in the fields of history, archaeology, genetics, publishing, and family history. Domesday DNA was read and well received by a very well known University scholar with many publications on medieval people as well as a high ranking British government official. At least two reviews of Domesday DNA are publicly available through The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Newsletter (No. 89, September 2021) and the Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Newsletter (January 2021). The facts, conclusions, and ideas presented and published in Domesday DNA are not part of the general knowledge or the public domain and were only first published by the author in 2017. To leave these citations out of the record, in fact, would be detrimental to the historical accuracy of the relevant pages. The identity of Herman de Dreux as the first holder of Edgeworth manor is entirely the synthesis of me, the author of Domesday DNA. The simple fact that Herman was not mentioned as the first named post-Conquest holder of Edgeworth manor and that Ingenulf was not already included in the list of Grand Butlers proves the necessity of citations to Domesday DNA. The fact that the author sourced the only synthesis is a point of courage for the willingness to back his novel claims, not self aggrandizement. I could individually cite the numerous sources used and cited in Domesday DNA to present the facts of Herman's identity and Ingenulf's service, tenure, and relationship to Baldric de Dreux, the first Grand Constable, but the synthesis of those many sources that lead to the conclusions presented in the relevant page edits and entries can only be found within the copyrighted pages of Domesday DNA. If you read Domesday DNA you will see that I always take every effort to give credit to those who discovered the individual facts and that I would never take credit for a fact or conclusion that I did not synthesize. However, Domesday DNA is the only source for the synthesis of the many individual facts, from both primary and secondary source material, for the historically novel conclusions, namely Herman's identity, the dates of Ingenulf's service, and the relationship between the Grand Constable and the Grand Butler. Thus, the rules cited by you against the entries made by me are not applicable since there is no other source and the only source, Domesday DNA, is not part of the public domain or the general knowledge. Further, citations are always necessary, especially for novel findings that are not widely known, to encourage accuracy and promote scholarship. EdgeworthDB (talk) 00:00, 1 September 2024 (UTC)