Hello, Suo motu! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! I dream of horsesIf you reply here, please ping me by adding {{U|I dream of horses}} to your message. (talk to me) (contributions) @ 22:55, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@I dream of horses Thank you for your suggestions. Will review links and reach out if help is needed.
Suo motu (talk) 14:59, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Suo motu, I noticed your edits at Venu Govindaraju. What you wrote there amounts to a piece of puffery; with edits such as these you added claims of greatness not supported by reliable third-party sources. The lack of such independent sources is a problem throughout the article, which is largely based on either statistics that you then interpret on your own, and on sources affiliated with Govindaraju. Consider for comparison this claim: "In only two of his 17 most significant papers he collaborated with someone whom he had not previously advised as a PhD student." That claim appears true if we accept the list of "impactful papers" (which does not come with a reliable source measuring impact), but it puts an entirely different spin on the basic facts. Giving the facts such a spin is not acceptable (and neither is it when you are doing it to give a positive spin). You may want to take a look at our guidelines on conflicts of interest, on the use of primary, secondary and tertiary sources and on original synthesis. Wikipedia content should be based on what reliable, independent sources have written about Govindaraju, not on our own interpretation of list entries and search results nor on his own CV or his own writings. Huon (talk) 19:46, 28 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
