User talk:JH Kirsch

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, JH Kirsch, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like Wikipedia and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! - Ahunt (talk) 16:00, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm AndrewDressel. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

Specifically, all of your recent additions are links to books published by Berghahn Books and possibly represent a conflict of interest -AndrewDressel (talk) 16:11, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Possible conflict of interest; citation spamming[edit]

I have noticed that your contributions to Wikipedia consist solely of inserting citations to the journal Zeithistorische Forschungen: Studies in Contemporary History into articles without adding any actual content. This is contrary to Wikipedia's guidelines about 'Citation spam'. In addition, I believe you may have a connection with the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, publishers of this journal, which would be contrary to Wikipedia's guideline about conflict of interest. Another editor and I have therefore removed all your contributions. Wikipedia would welcome your addition of reliably-sourced content (not merely citations) to articles about which you have expertise, provided it does not violate the above guidelines. Regards, Qwfp (talk) 16:24, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

JH Kirsch (talk) 17:14, 17 December 2017 (UTC)This topic was already discussed in the German Wikipedia, please see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:JH_Kirsch#Zusammenfassung - I am an editor of the journal Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, but our articles are no "citation spam" and no advertisements, but valuable content available online (Open Access journal, peer-reviewed).JH Kirsch (talk) 17:14, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CITESPAM pretty much explains this. You can't insert references that aren't being used to support text in articles, but are just being gratuitously added. Whether you intend it or not this is effectively purely promotional and does nothing to improve the articles. The fact that you are the editor of the journal that you are adding in means that you are in a conflict of interest (COI). It doesn't matter that this might be okay at de.wikipedia, as each language version is run separately and often has different rules as a result. Here on en.wikipedia our guidelines prohibit this. As you are in a COI, if you think these links should be added to any given article you should make a case on the talk page and see if any non-COI editors agree. - Ahunt (talk) 17:33, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]