User talk:Arithmometer

August 2023

Hello, Arithmometer. 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.

Editing in this way is 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); the edits will be reviewed and the citations removed where it was not appropriate to add them.

Scientific articles should prefer secondary sources to ensure that the information added is trusted by the scientific community.

The editing community highly values expert contributors, so 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 section on the article's talk page and add {{Edit COI}} to ask a volunteer to review whether or not the citation should be added.

MrOllie (talk) 14:06, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you.--VViking_TalkEdits 14:53, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Book reviews

I would like to send you reviews of my book, e.g. published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Arithmometer (talk) 14:54, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

The problem is not your book per se (I haven't examined it directly). The problem is using Wikipedia primarily as a vehicle for self promotion.

If you write a wiki article using a wide variety of sources and incidentally cite yourself because you think one of your works is the best reliable source (or even the only reliable source) for a particular claim, that's not necessarily any problem. But if all of your edits are just adding links to your book to the bibliography of every vaguely relevant article and nothing else, that more or less amounts to spamming the project. –jacobolus (t) 05:19, 31 August 2023 (UTC)