EFP Berlin

Welcome to Wikipedia. Your account has been blocked from editing because your username gives the impression that the account represents a group, team, club, organization, company, product, department, or website. Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Hammersoft (talk) 19:13, 24 November 2024 (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:

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

Request reason:

I would like to change my username from “EFP Berlin” to “EFPEditor” to comply with Wikipedia’s guidelines regarding individual usernames. The current username might incorrectly suggest a group or organization account, which is not my intention. This change will ensure that my account aligns with Wikipedia’s rules while allowing me to contribute constructively and transparently.

Decline reason:

Agree this is too general a username. Usernames cannot be that of a position and/or shared with others. This is different from the German Wikipedia, where business accounts are encouraged. Renaming it here will also rename it there; if you don't want to do that, you should just create an individual account for your exclusive use. Either way, you are a paid editor. 331dot (talk) 01:00, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

EFP Berlin (talk) 19:50, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I still think this is too inspecific and still implies a group account. Further, you appear to be editing here as a paid editor. As such, I'm adding our standard paid editor warning below. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello EFP Berlin. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:EFP Berlin. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=EFP Berlin|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. --Hammersoft (talk) 20:20, 24 November 2024 (UTC)