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January 2022

Please stop making external links to Wikipedia. Use internal links, like this: [[name]]. Please read the above material to learn how to do things rather than making it up as you go along. Skyerise (talk) 17:37, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hello CBIUMN. The nature of your edits 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.

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website - I have blocked this account. Please take a moment to either create a new account, or request a change of username of your current account here. The new username must represent only yourself as an individual and comply with Wikipedia's username policy.

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 Thank you. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 17:50, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Crazycomputers: @Skyerise:

@Crazycomputers & Skyerise Re: Edits to Charles Babbage Institute wiki page

I am the web developer for the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota and we launched a new website last year and I'm trying to update some of the outdated links on the wiki page dedicated to the Charles Babbage Institute. Not sure why I'm blocked given the account I set up states who we are as the user name and has a valid UMN email account attached to it.

CBIUMN (talk) 19:24, 4 January 2022 (UTC)CBI

Accounts should represent individuals, not organizations or roles within those organizations. For instance, "Bob at CBIUMN" would be an acceptable username. You can read more about this at Wikipedia:Username policy#Usernames implying shared use. Please also check out the information about conflicts of interest and paid editing in the block notice above. clpo13_(talk) 19:32, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Clpo13: I requested a new name (Norberg @ CBIUMN). How long until I'm unblocked and able to continue making updates? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CBIUMN (talk • contribs)

It depends on when a volunteer is free to handle the request. Note that even if the change is approved and you are unblocked, you must still follow the conflict of interest guidelines. In particular, you are required to disclose who is paying you to edit. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 19:51, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

@Crazycomputers: Since my account is blocked and it may remain so for who knows how long, how am I supposed to add in any info regarding COI and who's paying me? Again, I'm employed by CBI at the U of M and have been instructed to make these updates. CBIUMN (talk) 20:01, 4 January 2022 (UTC)Norberg

Once you are unblocked, you can make the edit to disclose your affiliation. You don't need to do that while blocked. I'd consider informing your employer of the COI guideline; they need to be aware that asking you to make these updates puts you in a difficult position. --Chris | Crazycomputers (talk) 21:07, 4 January 2022 (UTC)