Managing a conflict of interest edit

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 01:50, 9 February 2017 (UTC)Reply



Hello MrOllie,

I see that you have reverted my changes to the "Image Segmentation" applications page. In my humble opinion, the reference I have inserted is an apt image segmentation application that falls in the medical imaging domain. Are we not allowed to insert references from our own publications? Please clarify as I am new to editing wikipedia articles.