User talk:AFRINIC-Comms

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Hello, AFRINIC-Comms, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one of your contributions does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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March 2022
Hello AFRINIC-Comms. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to AFRINIC, 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:AFRINIC-Comms. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. — Mhawk10 (talk) 06:27, 21 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello
 * AFRINIC is one of the 5 Regional Internet Registry (https://afrinic.net/about) and a not-for-profit organisation responsible for the management of IPv4, IPv6 and AS-Number addresses for the African region. We disclose all our financial informations to the public at (https://afrinic.net/finance)
 * We created this Wikipedia account (User:AFRINIC-Comms) for the Communication & PR team (comms@afrinic.net) at AFRINIC to be able to contribute on our Wikipedia page (AFRINIC).
 * We are a legal entity fully recognised by the authorities under which we operate. We have not paid anyone to positively boost our reputation on Wikipedia. However the same cannot be said for those who did the controversial contributions just on the basis of having their paid opinions posted on some websites.
 * The other aspect is also that we are very conversant with using Wikipedia, so we are learning one step at a time. Any help, guidance you will provided will are greatly appreciated.
 * Thank you. AFRINIC-Comms (talk) 06:52, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

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

You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text 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. In your reasons, you must: Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. 331dot (talk) 08:55, 21 March 2022 (UTC) Note that role/shared accounts are not permitted, each account is for the exclusive use of a single individual who cannot grant others access. Only a single person should have access to this account. 331dot (talk) 08:56, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
 * 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.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.