User talk:Alicam

Welcome!

Hello, Alicam, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!
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 * In addition, I hope I've addressed the concerns you expressed at Talk:Auspice. You made good points that improve the usefulness of Auspicious, which I've converted to a disambiguation page with a Wiktionary link. Please check it out to see whether it works better now. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:25, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Clear Networks Logo.png
 Thanks for uploading File:Clear Networks Logo.png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:06, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Alicam. 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Nick-D (talk) 08:51, 13 July 2020 (UTC)


 * The short version of the above is that you should not be editing any articles related to your employer. Nick-D (talk) 08:51, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for arranging for another editor to edit on your behalf to create an article on your boss, after you had been asked to adhere to WP:COI and told you needed to avoid this topic (per User talk:Nick-D). If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Nick-D (talk) 08:28, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Blocks are not punitive, they are to prevent disruptive behavior. The block can be removed once we are assured that the disruptive behavior will end. Please review meatpuppetry, which is what it is called when editing is coordinated off-wiki. If you have a COI and ask someone else to edit for you, that person then has a COI. (leaving aside that you asked a blocked user to) Since you aren't going to be permitted to edit about your boss or anything related to your COI, what will you edit about? 331dot (talk) 07:45, 20 August 2020 (UTC)