User talk:BALK1818

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, BALK1818. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Bare Necessities (company), 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. Sdrqaz (talk) 22:39, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

December 2020
Hello BALK1818. 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:BALK1818. 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. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 22:46, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

 You have been blocked from editing from certain pages (Bare Necessities (company)) for a period of 36 hours for promotional edits. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. 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:. 5 albert square (talk) 22:46, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

UTRS 38837 declined
 has been declined. I'm sorry, but I cannot unblock you at this time. Please describe in greater detail how your editing was unconstructive and how you would edit constructively if unblocked. ( Please read Wikipedia's Guide to appealing blocks for more information. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_appealing_blocks) As you still have access to your talk page, please post your unblock request to your user talk page, omitting any off-Wiki personally identifying information. If you have not already done so, please place the following at the bottom of your talk page, filling in "Your reason here " . Thank you for your attention to these matters. Please see your talk page for more. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 23:05, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Please read and heed WP:COI and WP:PAID. Please be assured that Wikipedia has little interest in information provided by a subject's employees. "All content must be cited from reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and have a reputation for fact checking." Due to your conflict of interest, you should not edit the article directly. You are free to suggest edits supported by WP:reliable sources on the article talk page. Please do not edit further until you have made the required disclosures. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 23:05, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

It might be desirable to make the partial block more long lasting. Cheers, -- Deep fried okra  ( talk ) 23:07, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

I've changed the block to indefinite for editing this page, that's until you can convince us that you can edit in a non-promotional way.-- 5 albert square (talk) 23:19, 23 December 2020 (UTC)