Potato routing article; possible conflict of interest in citing my own book

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

Could people look at the talk page and give me an opinion on whether this, or even more, is a conflict of interest?  It's from a reputable textbook that had internal peer review, but not IETF or journal review.

[Pat_Palmer]

Howard,

If your conscience is bothering you, just put a note about "it is my book, does anyone really object?" on the talk page, and then forge on.

To me, it's OK as long as the material itself is not controversial.

Thanks for all the work you are doing!

- Pat

[Aleta Curry]

Ditto Pat.

My take: 

If your work shows bona fide expertise or even merit concerning the subject matter, it is not a problem.

It's only a problem if your sole (primary?)  intention is self-promotion.

My best guess, based on all the university courses I took where we had to buy the prof's book, is that we would find several of our authors' and editors' work quoted, for very good reason.  Insignificant as I am, I've got a work cited because I seem to be the only person on the planet who's published on the subject.

I seem to remember we resolved this because the issue was raised by Lee "Archaeological Superstar" Berger.