User talk:Seniorcroc

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Happy editing! FNNWiki (talk) 18:01, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Seniorcroc (talk) 18:03, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

UPE[edit]

Hello Seniorcroc. The nature of your edits 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:Seniorcroc. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Seniorcroc|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. 2600:8801:282F:5200:9427:5068:29D2:62A3 (talk) 23:59, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What do you refer to??? I have not done any paid edits, just edits to subjects I have an interest in or pages that I felt needed improving. Seniorcroc (talk) 08:50, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

December 2022[edit]

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 a 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:

Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
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.

GeneralNotability (talk) 19:52, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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).

Seniorcroc (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Could you please explain why I have been blocked? I request immediate unblock. I have not done any paid editing so you have made some kind of mistake. Seniorcroc (talk) 08:42, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

The explanation is given immediately above and you have addressed none of the concerns. Yamla (talk) 10:12, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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).

Seniorcroc (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Let me try this again by answering your concerns:

1- I Confirm that I have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.

2- I have not been paid by anyone to do any edits. Someone is just accusing me of this. If you have some kind of evidence that I did this, please disclose it. As far as I can see the admin MER-C blocked me, because someone anonymous from an IP posted a message to him in his talk page. As you can see no evidence or reasoning is provided other than a suspicion. MER-C has just agreed to with him by saying "I agree" without any reasoning and banned me. There is another user involved in that thread, that has nothing to do with me. You can also verify that I have no common edits with that user.

3- I will not do any paid edits and comply with all policies of disclosing paid editing

I would think that at minimum I am entitled to a more detailed explanation as to why I am being banned, so I can at least respond to it.

Seniorcroc (talk) 20:23, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

No, we're not going to give you information that you can use to better evade detection. 331dot (talk) 10:10, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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