Abcd4310

November 2020

Hello Abcd4310. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Ayden Lincoln, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Abcd4310. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Abcd4310|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. GSS ^💬 03:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, as you did at Ayden Lincoln. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

• Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
• State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
• Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

GeneralNotability (talk) 04:07, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

I WILL STOP TOUCHING THE PAGE! BUT I SWEAR I AM NOT BEING PAID. Abcd4310 (talk) 05:32, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes I understand Wikipedia requirements. Abcd4310 (talk) 05:34, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Abcd4310 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I AM NOT BEING PAID! I WAS EXPERIMENTING WITH WIKIPEDIA AMONG 2 ACCOUNTS. I AM LITERALLY NOT BEING PAID. Abcd4310 (talk) 05:30, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Since you indicate that you are 'retired', there is no need to address this block. If you change your mind, you may make another unblock request. User talk pages are not deleted. 331dot (talk) 09:34, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

I WAS LITERALLY JUST EXPERIMENTING I AM UNRELATED TO THE SUBJECT. WHY DO YOU THINK I’M BEING PAID? Abcd4310 (talk) 05:32, 21 November 2020 (UTC)