User talk:Reading64

Welcome, but be careful

Welcome to Wikipedia. Here are suggested readings: WP:SECONDARY and WP:COI. The gist of these guidelines are:

Wikipedia prefers citations to reviews and books, not primary journal references (tens of thousands appear annually). Citing secondary sources is the encyclopedic style.
Do not cite yourself or your colleagues. It's called conflict of interest. Many new editors cite themselves mainly. That behavior is inappropriate. We are here to promote knowledge, not ourselves or our colleagues and friends.

Here are some data from checking Chemical Abstracts Service: of almost 33,000 reports on "ionic liquids", 3209 alone appeared in 2015. We can be fairly sure that authors of those 3200+ reports think that their work is important and merits inclusion in Wikipedia. But doing so is not reasonable. Wikipedia could not even accommodate the 700+ reviews on this topic. So we all need to aim to cite general sources. --Smokefoot (talk) 20:41, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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16:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

March 2017

Please stop attacking other editors, as you did on Talk:Ionic_liquid. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. DMacks (talk) 19:33, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]