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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, ABBComms. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Pregnancy discrimination, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 22:52, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: A Better Balance (June 21)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Robertsky were: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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– robertsky (talk) 19:32, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, ABBComms! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! – robertsky (talk) 19:32, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

June 2022

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must:

• Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
• Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
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Cullen328 (talk) 19:53, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

maiden606 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I am compensated by the organization A Better Balance for my contributions indirectly, as a member of the organization's communications team. I understand that my account has been banned due to my not properly disclosing my affiliation and compensation – apologies, I mistakenly thought that adding a COI disclosure to my user page would be sufficient, but I can also add any and all necessary disclosures of organizational affiliation and compensation to my User and Talk pages. If I am unblocked, I would like to use the resources and research created by A Better Balance to build up cited sources on relevant articles, within the parameters of what is allowed by Wikipedia editors, and to create a page for A Better Balance within those same parameters, as the organization has played a major role in working on legislation (including drafting pieces of legislation that have passed at the state and local level across the country), has been written about in numerous external sources in major publications like the New York Times, Forbes, and Washington Post, and has been verbally cited by politicians such as Rep. Jerry Nadler as playing a notable role in passing and advancing certain pieces of legislation, and is therefore a noteworthy entity. Going forward, I will make any necessary changes to my account, and any materials I submit for consideration, in order to comply by all of Wikipedia's guidelines and be as neutral and straightforward as possible.

Decline reason:

Your choice of new username would be acceptable. Please review WP:COI and WP:PAID and tell us specifically how your future edits will be consistent with those policies, and also if there are any other topics you might edit about as a general contributor. I am declining your request at this time. 331dot (talk) 08:33, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

I have reviewed both pages, and will be adding conflict of interest and paid contribution disclosure templates to my user page if unblocked, as well as indicating both of these in any ongoing edits. As a general contributor, I might make factual edits adding additional details to pages related to labor laws, as well as updates on the statuses of pieces of legislation as they move through Congress in order to keep those pages current and accurate. Thank you. ABBComms (talk) 14:56, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

I have reviewed both pages, and will be adding conflict of interest and paid contribution disclosure templates to my user page if unblocked, as well as indicating both of these in any ongoing edits. As a general contributor, I might make factual edits adding additional details to pages related to labor laws, as well as updates on the statuses of pieces of legislation as they move through Congress in order to keep those pages current and accurate. Thank you. ABBComms (talk) 17:25, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

maiden606 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I am compensated by the organization A Better Balance for my contributions indirectly, as a member of the organization's communications team. I understand that my account has been banned due to my not properly disclosing my affiliation and compensation – apologies, I mistakenly thought that adding a COI disclosure to my user page would be sufficient, but I can also add any and all necessary disclosures of organizational affiliation and compensation to my User and Talk pages. If I am unblocked, I would like to use the resources and research created by A Better Balance to build up cited sources on relevant articles, within the parameters of what is allowed by Wikipedia editors, and to create a page for A Better Balance within those same parameters, as the organization has played a major role in working on legislation (including drafting pieces of legislation that have passed at the state and local level across the country), has been written about in numerous external sources in major publications like the New York Times, Forbes, and Washington Post, and has been verbally cited by politicians such as Rep. Jerry Nadler as playing a notable role in passing and advancing certain pieces of legislation, and is therefore a noteworthy entity. Going forward, I will make any necessary changes to my account, and any materials I submit for consideration, in order to comply by all of Wikipedia's guidelines and be as neutral and straightforward as possible. I have reviewed both WP:COI and WP:PAID, and will be adding conflict of interest and paid contribution disclosure templates to my user page if unblocked, as well as indicating both of these in any ongoing edits. As a general contributor, I might make factual edits adding additional details to pages related to labor laws, as well as updates on the statuses of pieces of legislation as they move through Congress in order to keep those pages current and accurate. Thank you. ABBComms (talk) 16:12, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Everyone says they'll "comply with all of Wikipedia's guidelines", which is why you were asked to speak in specifics. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:16, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

To paraphrase, "I would like to use the resources and research created by A Better Balance to build up cited sources on relevant articles" reads like "You would like to find claims in the encyclopedia which are already sourced, and add links to your organisation's website." How would your proposed additions differ from WP:REFSPAM? Cabayi (talk) 10:26, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

These proposed edits would involve adding additional details and claims using primary sources located through an internal archive of .gov websites and bill texts (both state and federal level) to add current updates to the status of certain pieces of legislation and maintain lists of existing protections on legislation-specific pages regarding paid family and medical leave, paid sick time, and potential other policy topics. This would not involve any swapping of existing citations unless an entire claim was corrected or updated on my end in a way that would necessitate adding a new more current source to ensure the information is up-to-date and accurate. ABBComms (talk) 17:08, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

To clarify: you are interested in adding links to .gov sites you are unaffiliated with? Or are you linking to a site that you are affiliated with? Your two replies here are a bit contradictory if you ask me. Vanished user 60279853583153 (talk) 23:59, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:A Better Balance

Hello, ABBComms. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:A Better Balance, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:02, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:A Better Balance

Hello, ABBComms. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "A Better Balance".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:44, 21 December 2022 (UTC)