Russell.Bickel

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Russell.Bickel, good luck, and have fun. Schazjmd (talk) 20:29, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Russell.Bickel. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:40, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

June 2020

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have an undisclosed financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

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• State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
• Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 04:50, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Russell.Bickel (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:

Having read full the terms of service I see how there was a violation of the Paid Contribution by creating a page for my employer of Crossroads Church in Cincinnati Ohio. To confirm the above request I can: :* Confirm fully that I have read, and now more completely understand, Wikimedia Foundations Terms of Service specifically in relation to Conflicts in Interest. :* Currently I am employed by Crossroads Church in Cincinnati Ohio working in the area of Data Science. I was not specifically approached to edit Wikipedia as a factor of my job description or as a function of my work, I see the conflict in this none-the-less now. Even if the edits were performed off-hours as a volunteer act it is still a role that I was asked to complete due to my employment and being close to staff members. :* In the future, no further creation, adjustments, or edits will be made, by Me, to any pages of Current or Past Crossroads Employees, the direct Crossroads Church page, or any additional partner organizations we work with (examples being Citylink Center and Compassion International). Russell.Bickel (talk) 1:35 pm, 11 August 2020, last Tuesday (7 days ago) (UTC−4)

Accept reason:

I appreciate your candor and your agreement to not edit anything related to your employer. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to me at my talk page. only (talk) 15:53, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

If unblocked, what do you intend to edit? I am glad to see you will not edit related to the church. only (talk) 21:05, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

• if unblocked, any edits that I make would be cited and informed in regards to interests not connected to my profession (Adventure Motorcycling, Automotive brands, National Parks could all be an example) Russell.Bickel (talk) 14:56, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Brian Tome

Hello, Russell.Bickel. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Brian Tome".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:54, 22 December 2020 (UTC)