R3dm1ll

Your submission at Articles for creation: First Derm (March 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Sulfurboy were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Sulfurboy (talk) 15:28, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Fderm! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Sulfurboy (talk) 15:28, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at Draft:First Derm, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Sulfurboy (talk) 15:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Fderm. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:First Derm, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Fderm. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Fderm|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. Sulfurboy (talk) 15:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text

{{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}

at the bottom of your talk page. 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.

 Thank you. 331dot (talk) 18:06, 2 March 2020 (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.

R3dm1ll (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:

R3dm1ll (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

My name was associated with a company, i did this for transparency but this broke guidelines, my apologies Fderm (talk) 10:03 am, Today (UTC+0)

Decline reason:

While the username would be fine, that doesn't seem to consider the issues with promotional edits given above. As such, I'm declining it at this point - I'd suggest covering that aspect in an additional unblock request. Nosebagbear (talk) 15:02, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Nosebagbear While you can certainly make the call that you did, I only intended this as a username block. 331dot (talk) 15:16, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

331dot - if you think the promotionalism wasn't severe enough to factor into the block then I'm happy for you to unblock Nosebagbear (talk) 21:02, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

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

R3dm1ll (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:

R3dm1ll (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

OK i've been pulled up by 3 admins now so clearly I have gone wrong somewhere! It will come as no surprise that I am a wikipedia novice. I wanted to create a neutral page for First Derm since they are the biggest in the teledermatology space. Their doctor treated me for a skin disease and I noticed VisualDX have a page. I believed that First Derm merited a page due to their significant efforts in teledermatology and AI. I set up with username Fderm because I felt (albeit wrongly!) that setting up with that name would give more transparency, especially with me declaring conflict of interest - I clearly joined wikipedia to create their page and wanted that to be as clear as possibl. I then edited an old rejected draft from 2017 that someone must have done. I added more references from ncbi.org and removed the marketing spiel. This piece was pulled up by the awards which i have since removed. I just wanted to make a neutral page on these guys since I was surprised there wasn't a page already. I'm sorry for any issues caused, I just wanted to create a neutral page! (talk)

Accept reason:

Per below. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 20:21, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

I intended the block as only for your username. I would, however, ask if you are in communication with First Derm about a potential article. 331dot (talk) 23:42, 3 March 2020 (UTC) Hey, thanks for getting back to me. I've not contacted First Derm about it, is it better that I speak to them first? I thought i'd just create a page since I thought it was worthy on one. Let me know, apologies again for all the confusion.

Sorry for the delay. I'm asking a colleague to process the rename now, and I'll unblock after that. I do want to point you towards WP:NPOV as one of our core guidelines regarding articles. And no, in general, the subject of an article is not involved in authoring the article; see WP:COI. Best, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 20:19, 21 March 2020 (UTC)