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Hello Pi3146, the question was getting a bit off-topic for a purely spam-related forum, so I hope you don't mind a few quick tips here:

• The usage of promotional and PR sites is generally discouraged. Of course such activities from site owners are usually not illegal. But they tend to reduce the reliability of the site in question. Use such sites with a promotional focus only in exceptional cases and with caution.
• Wikipedia is not a platform to report about new theories or upcoming scientific trends, unless these theories have already been reviewed and discussed by other academic peers and expert publications. Thus a lot of the cutting-edge new content on the author's site may probably not be useable as source, as it may not reflect established encyclopedic knowledge - but that's a case by case decision depending on the specific research and its current status.
• Blogs, even expert blogs, usually don't have editorial oversight or fact-checking processes. So blogs in general should not be used in almost all cases. Expert blogs may be used to verify the expert's own attributed opinion, but that's pretty much the only major exception.
• Aside from these general considerations, books and other publications from this author and his site were systematically
  cite spammed
  in dozens of indiscriminate Wikipedia articles - often without proper context and encyclopedic relevance, just to have the citation for its own sake. Such promotional mass-adding of indiscriminate citations without real encyclopedic value is never OK, no matter which source or publication is spammed.

I hope these quick and simplified tips are helpful. More information to identify valid reliable sources can be found in

You need to declare any connection to Mike Gruntman and the astronauticsnow website. See our policy

@Guy I am a solar physicist, into instrumentation research, and closely follow Mike's work. We (my space physics fraternity) often cite his work and research, and have taken his scientific and technical advice for our own research purposes on multiple occasions. Furthermore, this article is totally written by my own discretion, in good faith, to preserve and bring out to the larger audience (outside of immediate scientific fraternity), Mike's contribution in the areas of astronautics, space-physics (esp ENA) research and education. I however, do not wish to be uniquely identified (in public) for privacy reasons, if ok ! I have no connection to Astronauticsnow, its MikeG personal webpage.

It is almost never suitable to copy content from another web site to Wikipedia, as you did at

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Hello. As discussed above it appears you are in conflict of interest when you edit topics related to

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I urge you again to stop your edits on Mike Gruntman, for the reasons detailed in my last message above in March. Thank you. Ariadacapo (talk) 09:57, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ariadacapo How else would you update the factual information on somebody...wiki is full of pages (hollywood, bureaucrats astronauts) maintained by professional PR organisations...instead of content you start pointing to intent ..its ultra left wing nonsense by consistently pointing to COI.. Now you reverted the changes which included tenure of MG being chair ending a few months ago! ..even citing sources is a problem for you... btw,,,If I created the page..then offcourse I will have more affinity to keep it updated...I declared already that I dont work for him but we are in same field (ENA) where his contributions need to be acknowledged..(wiki cites his articles hundreds of times)

You are expected to remain civil. You are welcome to edit Wikipedia, and the pages you see that need improvement. But if your only contribution here is to ever write about and cite a single person, and you simply ignore other editors, it’s not going to work. Again, please find other topics to edit. Ariadacapo (talk) 19:15, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm J. M.. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you.

Also, please do not ignore the repeated COI warnings above. It looks like your primary purpose on Wikipedia is promoting Mike Gruntman.—J. M. (talk) 16:14, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello JM ,

it looks wiki pretends that all pages are created here (esp celebs/movies/brands etc) out off goodwill and not by dedicated PR agencies. Now my promoting MG as academic is that he is already widely cited across wiki without my contributions. As world leading expert, faculty and PI on several NASA missions, the educational content he is creating is meant for masses to clarify concepts that otherwise are very foggy on wiki. This requires effort and motivation -- which you are killing for your own righteous and confused ideals. I am not sure about these warnings either...then every few days you ask us to contribute in both money and content --but proclaim you are FREE!

Btw the first external link on molniya page is also by MG, not added by me ! this is was a followup video for further details !

Moreover, I am only editing MG because I know the field/domain and peer review it. I am not editing justin Bieber because I dont know music .--its logical!

The Conflict of interest guideline exists for a reason, even if you, as a COI editor, cannot see or understand it, or disagree with it. These are not confused ideals, this is a long-standing consensus reached by the Wikipedia community, for very good reasons, based on years of experience and other Wikipedia rules. As the guideline says, "You should generally refrain from creating articles about yourself, or anyone you know", and "you are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly". This applies to inserting links to external websites as well.—J. M. (talk) 16:58, 13 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your love for bureaucracy and archaic paper pushing is astounding. Instead of focusing on educational content, you are worried about relationship between me and author !!