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Happy editing! 331dot (talk) 09:23, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must:

• Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
• 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; and
• Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
• Provide a new username.

To do this, 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.

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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:

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

Request reason:

First I would like to thank you for bringing the fact that the content is promoting Mr Matinyarare and the username is promoting my business. I was not aware that the content I submitted was promoting Mr Matinyarare. I will edit it according to the wikipedia guidelines (which I understand better now) and refrain from any content or referrences that might be promoting him. I am not being paid to create a wikipedia profile for Mr Matinyarare. I believe that he is making a valuable contribution in telling the African story from an african point of view and I would like to share those insights with the rest of the world. Frontlinestrat (talk) 11:21, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

You said here that you were interested in editing about your client, and Mr. Matinyarare is the only topic you have edited about, so I must conclude that he is your client, which contradicts your statement here that you are "not being paid to create a Wikipedia profile"(we don't have "profiles" here, not a single one, we have articles). Note that "paid editing" is not limited to specific payment for edits, otherwise every paid editor would deny being specifically paid to edit. Paid editing includes any paid relationship- if Mr. Matinyarare is your client, you are a paid editor and are required by the Terms of Use to disclose this. What you describe as your purpose here is best suited to social media or a personal website, not Wikipedia, which is interested in what independent reliable sources say about a topic. You won't be unblocked to further make edits related to your conflict of interest; if that is your only goal here, this is the end of the road. If you want to edit about topics for which you have no conflict of interest, please tell what those might be. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 13:32, 1 January 2024 (UTC)