Thomp4ju

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:19, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Special enforcement measures apply to blockchain and cryptocurrency related content

Hello, Thomp4ju. 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 COI 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Please read this notification carefully, it contains important information about an administrative situation on Wikipedia. It does not imply any misconduct regarding your own contributions to date.

A community decision has authorised the use of general sanctions for pages related to the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The details of these sanctions are described here. All pages that are broadly related to these topics are subject to a one revert per twenty-four hours restriction, as described here.

General sanctions is a system of conduct regulation designed to minimise disruption in controversial topic areas. This means uninvolved administrators can impose sanctions for edits relating to these topics that do not adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, our standards of behaviour, or relevant policies. Administrators may impose sanctions such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks. An editor can only be sanctioned after he or she has been made aware that general sanctions are in effect. This notification is meant to inform you that sanctions are authorised in these topic areas, which you have been editing. It is only effective if it is logged here. Before continuing to edit pages in these topic areas, please familiarise yourself with the general sanctions system. Don't hesitate to contact me or another editor if you have any questions.

Your edits to Stellar (payment network) are sanctionable for being promotional and poorly sourced. Cryptocurrency enthusiast websites are not reliable sources. Consider this your only warning. MER-C 19:22, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Editing, and the topic you chose

Hi Thimp4ju, this edit was not OK on many, many levels.

Also, the topic of blockchain/cytpocurrencies is somewhat "dangerous" per the notice above; it is probably unwise for you to work on it.

User:Shalor (Wiki Ed) would you please have a look at what is going on here, as well? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 15:26, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks for alerting me to this Jytdog! Thimp4ju, here are the reasons the changes were most likely reverted:

1. The addition messed with the formatting of the article and didn't follow Wikipedia's style guidelines - for example, any new information meant to be in the infobox should be added to the existing infobox and the lead should not be under a header.
2. There were no sources that backed up the claims in the article, which are absolutely necessary for any article but especially for controversial topics like blockchains and cryptocurrencies because things can be so contentious. It looks like there were some sources in your sandbox, so it looks like they weren't copied over when you moved your work live - to make sure that they're copied over properly both pages should be open in edit mode.
3. The addition of several new subsections chopped up the article a little too much - in most cases there only needs to be a very general overview of a company's partnerships unless there is a lot of coverage in independent, reliable sources about the details of the partnership. A lot of coverage over partnerships tends to be a little routine and heavily based on press releases or official statements from one or both companies, so make sure that the coverage is pretty extensive.
4. Keep in mind that if you remove or change something, it needs to be justifiable, especially if you are removing a lot of sources. In your sandbox draft you use very few sources as compared to the existing article, so you need to be able to justify why the article should have fewer sources or why a source should be removed. The same thing goes for claims that are altered or removed.
5. Make sure that all of the content is as neutral as possible. It should not come across as promotional. This can take a while to get used to since what may be seen as not as much of an issue in normal conversation or in academic papers can be promotional and non-neutral on Wikipedia. This is because while it's generally OK and sometimes even strongly encouraged to be non-neutral in these areas, Wikipedia shouldn't come across as taking a specific side or viewpoint.

I think that this covers some of the most general issues. I know that the class is ending, but if you do return and want to edit the article, I would recommend starting by making small changes to the existing article as opposed to possibly changing it wholesale. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:55, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

• As far as how this is more of an issue with a controversial topic, this is because as stated above, controversial topics are often contentious and frequently debated as to how it should be covered and who to cite - even on Wikipedia. Some of these can get pretty extensive, so there's an extra strong emphasis on bringing your A game and ensuring that the material is as neutral as possible, written and formatted to fit style guidelines, and cited by the best/strongest possible sources. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:00, 1 November 2018 (UTC)