User talk:Prof. Lindsay Falvey
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Prof. Lindsay Falvey, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.
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Citing one's own work
[edit]Wikipedia has policies restricting editors from promoting their own works: see WP:SELFCITE. Your edits seem primarily to include references to your own work, which could be seen as self-promotion. These works are also not published by a peer-reviewed press or journal, which ranks them weak on the scale of verifiable sources. I would ask that you not continue to reference your work here, but encourage you to continue as an editor drawing on other sources that are more established.
The self-citations you have already added may well be reviewed and some of them possibly deleted by myself or others. Clean Copytalk 11:02, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
Warning over multiple user names
[edit]You appear to have been editing previously under the name User:Lindsay.falvey. Wikipedia has significant restrictions on users employing multiple user names. At very least, you should leave a note on the old user page indicating that it is in disuse and that you are now editing under the new user name. You should avoid at all costs employing both user names to edit the same article, as this is considered sock-puppetry.
There is no reason to think there has been any impropriety, as the one user name was not used after the new one was created, and there was a two year gap in between, but it is good to avoid any unclarity. Clean Copytalk 12:25, 5 September 2017 (UTC)