User talk:NecessityBreeds

February 2022

Hello, NecessityBreeds. 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) 04:05, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello MrOllie - it's a pleasure to be here.

I have been meaning to try my hand at editing and contributing to Wikipedia for some time now, especially having now left academia and taken up a role in the private sector.

It is not my goal to promote anyone, but instead to learn the ropes in anticipation of making more substantial contributions. That said, it does so happen that there are quite a few areas to which specialised references from a couple of niche peer reviewed publications struck me as worthy of inclusion - it just so happened that the references cited connect to a multitude of topics, and were therefore an obvious choice for materials to use as I familiarise myself with the interface.

It is most unfortunate that my first forays into editing Wikipedia has been interpreted as anything other than constructive, but I trust that anyone who should wish to assess the validity of my edits so far will find that they are reasonable to say the least, and the resources cited are of a very high standard.

I intend to write at least a few substantial contributions, and I have no intention of deviating from what I have done thus far: I will only add content concerning subjects with which I have extensive experience or expertise.

I hold a PhD and am a published author of scholarly peer-reviewed work. I know when and where to include appropriate citations, and will continue to do so accordingly.

I should also point out that the references I have used in these early explorations of Wikipedia's editing functionality are sufficiently specialised that there is a scarcity or total lack of review articles in the literature.

If there is a problem with my contributions thus far that I have not addressed here, please do let me know at my earliest convenience so that I may correct the error(s). Again, I am here to contribute, develop and refine, not 'promote', and I will happily remove additions I make if they are invalid or otherwise problematic. NecessityBreeds (talk) 06:24, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, NecessityBreeds. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Management consulting, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kuru (talk) 03:37, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]