Com1819

March 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Erste Group, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Gr1st (talk) 18:52, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

June 2014

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended for publicity and/or promotional purposes. If you intend to edit constructively in other topic areas, you may be granted the right to continue under a change of username. Please read the following carefully.

Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

Your account's edits and/or username indicate that it is being used on behalf of a company, group, website or organization for purposes of promotion and/or publicity. The edits may have violated one or more of our rules on spamming, which include: adding inappropriate external links, posting advertisements and using Wikipedia for promotion. Wikipedia has many articles on companies, groups, and organizations, but such groups are generally discouraged from using Wikipedia to write about themselves. In addition, usernames like yours are disallowed under our username policy.

Am I allowed to make these edits if I change my username?

Probably not, although if you can demonstrate a pattern of future editing in strict accordance with our neutral point of view policy, you may be granted this right. See Wikipedia's FAQ for Organizations for a helpful list of frequently asked questions by people in your position. Also, review the conflict of interest guidance to see the kinds of limitations you would have to obey if you did want to continue editing about your company, group, organization, or clients. If this does not fit in with your goals, then you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia again.

What can I do now?

If you have no interest in writing about some other topic than your organization, group, company, or product, you may consider using one of the many websites that allow this instead.

If you do intend to make useful contributions here about some other topic, you must convince a Wikipedia administrator that you mean it. To that end, please do the following:

• Add the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} on your user talk page.
• Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:Listusers to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy.
• Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
  • Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the edits for which you were blocked.
  • Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. the panda ₯’ 13:26, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

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).

Com1819 (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:

Because I never did advertising! I just updated facts and figures based on the german version from the Wikipedia side of Erste Group!

Decline reason:

There are two issues: the username and promotional editing. On the question of promotional editing, I have checked your editing history, and I can't see anything that looks like advertising or promotion. Normally, I would consult the blocking administrator, in case he has noticed something that I haven't, but in this case the blocking administrator has not edited since December 2014, so there is probably little point in trying to contact him, and I have decided on my own that there is no basis for keeping you blocked for promotional editing. As for the username, I personally don't agree with Wikipedia's username policy, and I would be happy to let you keep your present username. However, whatever you or I personally think, your username is contrary to English Wikipedia's policy, and you must change it. I am changing the block from a "spamusername block" to a "username block", which means that you may continue to edit if you change your username. There is nothing in Wikipedia policy to stop you just creating a new account and using it, but you may prefer to ask to have this account unblocked so that you can request a change of username for this account. That would mean that the edits you have already made will be kept in your editing history, together with new edits you make from now on. My own preference would be for you to do that, rather than create a new account, as sometimes problems arise if another editor sees edits from two accounts that seem to be the same person, and thinks something dishonest is going on, especially if they see that one of the accounts is blocked. However, that is your choice. I am posting a notice below, stating the nature of the new block, and explaining how to request an unblock to allow a change of username. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:53, 13 July 2015 (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.

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, EGEditor, does not meet our username policy.

Your username is the only reason for this block. You are welcome to choose a new username (see below) and continue editing.

A username should not be promotional, related to a "real-world" group or organization, misleading, offensive or disruptive. Also, usernames may not end in the word "bot" unless the account is an approved bot account. 

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

1. Adding {{unblock-un|your new username here}} on your user talk page. You should be able to do this even though you are blocked, as you can usually still edit your own talk page. If not, you may wish to contact the blocking administrator by clicking on "E-mail this user" on their talk page.
2. At an administrator's discretion, you may be unblocked for 24 hours to file a request.
3. Please note that you may only request a name that is not already in use, so please check here for a listing of already taken names. The account is created upon acceptance, thus do not try to create the new account before making the request for a name change. For more information, please see Wikipedia:Changing username.

If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:53, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Com1819 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

Com1819 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. Yunshui ^雲_水 13:46, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Com1819. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Willibald Cernko, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
• instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
• when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

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. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 09:15, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Your edits about Erste Group

Dear Com1819, following your newly created article about Willibald Cernko which I reviewed as part of new pages patrol, I have the impression you may have a conflict of interest with regards to topics related to Austrian banking group Erste Group. Your editing and username history suggest a close connection with the group. This applies to both German and English Wikipedia. If you have a conflict of interest with Erste Group through employment or business relations, you must refrain from editing about Erste Group and should request changes only via talk pages of articles, disclosing your conflict each time. Please familiarise yourself with the conflicts policy which I have outlined above. I have in the meantime tagged your new article as conflicted. Any comments about this would be highly appreciated. Many thanks. _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 09:22, 23 June 2017 (UTC)