User talk:Dboufidis
February 2025
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Hello, Dboufidis. We welcome your contributions, but it appears as if your primary purpose on Wikipedia is to add citations to sources you may be affiliated with.
Editing in this way is a violation of the policy against using Wikipedia for promotion and is a form of conflict of interest. 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.
If you wish to continue contributing, please first consider citing other reliable secondary sources such as review articles that were written by other researchers in your field and that are already highly cited in the literature. If you wish to cite sources for which you may have a conflict of interest, 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) 00:20, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very for your message. My goal was to expand the article by incorporating recent advancements in brain implants, including developments in soft, biohybrid, and living neural interfaces, which are now being explored in multiple peer-reviewed studies. While our work in Nature Communications was cited due to its relevance, I made a strong effort to ensure neutrality by also citing other secondary sources (e.g., Rochford et al., Boulingre et al.).
- I understand the COI guidelines and completely respect Wikipedia’s policies (after all, they’re what make Wikipedia such a valuable and unique resource!). I would appreciate guidance on how best to contribute objectively to this topic. If self-citation is a concern, I am happy to have independent editors review and assess the relevance of the sources before inclusion. Dboufidis (talk) 00:24, 24 February 2025 (UTC)