Hans Gerd Stingelmeyer

September 2021

Hello FallingSparksStudios. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Jon Sine, 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:FallingSparksStudios. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=FallingSparksStudios|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. Jack Frost (talk) 13:08, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely 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 name and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions other than 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.
• Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Orange Mike | Talk 14:33, 15 September 2021 (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).

Hans Gerd Stingelmeyer (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:

1. I do not have to disclose any compensation recieved for writing my article as their has and will not be any direct or indirect benefits of writing articles on Wikipedia as I fully understood that this does not comply with the rules for the Wiki. 2. I do understand that my username is not complying with the rules for usernames and I am not using a brand or other name for a product as my username. The prior taken name is a fun name and should have not been ment to hurt any rules. If this is not appreciated I would like to change it to something even more neutral. 3. I want to progress writing the discussed article. I know this will be a little controversial now though you are mistaken a newbee on Wikipedia with a blackhat advertising thing. I get your points though I dont see any arguments by you that would be solid enough to block me as a user. And there is no reason to do so. If you need me to change anything you could ask politly. Eventhough I get what you are trying to prohibit and Im fully on your site I dont get the way this is enforced.

Decline reason:

You do have to disclose any compensation per WP:PAID/WP:COI, and frankly I do not buy that your username was just in fun. I see no indication you intend to play by our rules regarding paid/conflict of interest editing, and therefore I decline the unblock request. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:49, 10 October 2021 (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.

You DO need to specify whether you are paid to write the article per WP:PAID. Lavalizard101 (talk) 11:11, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

This would imply that I am a paid writer which is not the case. And I cant follow your evidence to why I should be or where I have done advertising on a subject that would violate neutral point of view. --Hans Gerd Stingelmeyer (talk) 11:16, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

globally renamed FallingSparksStudios to Hans Gerd Stingelmeyer

globally renamed FallingSparksStudios to Hans Gerd Stingelmeyer --Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:23, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Jon Sine

Hello, Hans Gerd Stingelmeyer. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Jon Sine, 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) 16:01, 15 February 2022 (UTC)