User talk:159.149.46.102

Hello.

You have restored an edited on Plasticity (physics) that was rejected by me because of using an inappropriate primary reference and because it appears to be citation spam. You have reverted this deletion. I observe that you are pushing this same citation on another wiki page. Clearly this is citation spam. You need to reflect on what you are doing. Please stop. This is your official warning. Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. NeedsGlasses (talk) 01:21, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Thank you for your message. I will not keep pushing the same citation and I will not edit that page again. However, I would like to invite you to reflect on the following fact. The following sentence on the Plasticity (physics) page: "In amorphous materials, the discussion of "dislocations" is inapplicable, since the entire material lacks long range order. These materials can still undergo plastic deformation" is outdated and factually wrong. It should be changed in light of new results in the field.

This is because topological defects similar to dislocations, and linked to plasticity, have been recently discovered in amorphous materials in the 2021 PRL paper citation that you removed (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.015501). Following that 2021 discovery, other papers by independent labs worldwide have confirmed this discovery: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38547-w, including more recently also by the Johns Hopkins plasticity team led by Michael Falk: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07109.

These are important scientific developments in the field of plasticity of amorphous materials which should be made accessible to a broad readership. Since you are competent in the field, I kindly ask you to consider adding this information in the most impartial and objective way possible yourself.

Thank you very much for your cooperation. 159.149.46.102 (talk) 10:11, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. You mention the keywords - impartial, objective and broad readership. So this shows that you have the right values. There is no need for a self imposed life time ban on editing the plasticity page. So feel free to re-edit the page. Although you should also consider that wikipedia isn't necessarily a reflection of what is right but what is broadly accepted. But you can also say something is new if has reached the level of dissemination of book or a review paper (secondary references). There are plenty of wiki guidelines but people can be tripped up if they treat wikipedia like editing a journal paper without understanding the 'wikipedia vibe'. The requirements are different. NeedsGlasses (talk) 07:03, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]