User talk:Beccasouthcott

July 2019
Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for your contributions. However, I noticed that some of the grammatical edits you're making are not correct. In particular, some of your edits have incorrectly changed "its" to "it's". Because of this, I have reverted those edits. You may find it helpful to review the usage rules for these two words. Thanks, SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 20:08, 15 July 2019 (UTC)

July 2019
Hello Beccasouthcott. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Beccasouthcott. 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. GSS (talk |c|em ) 17:32, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. 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:. MER-C 17:01, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Request for unblock

 * I don't think it's deceptive, because it's the truth. The first line you mention is a quote from an article where the owner describes why Bather was created in the first place. The second is talking about what makes that brand noteworthy and popular. The same way that any clothing brand that exists on wikipedia (because there are a ton, by the way) has a bit of information on why people care about who they are and what they do; it's the "history" of the brand. I did create the image. Bather's logo is from google images, there's an entire website that offers images of surfers for free (unsplash.com), and I am savvy with photoshop. Not that you'd need to be, it's very basic editing. I don't understand how you can block my entire account for an article that has language you could change and/or remove if you feel the need to, and then threaten me with personal information and 0 verification as to whether or not this info actually applies to me. Beccasouthcott (talk) 19:27, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Telling the world at lengh why the CEO says he created the company is promoting the company. The line about "casual fit and dynamic prints" is not just not supported by the cited source, it's also opinion presented as fact in Wikipedia's voice. Regarding the logo, I'm sorry for assuming that the picture illustrating the article, described as "Bather logo" on Commons, genuinely was the company's logo as opposed to something you made up. I have nominated the image for deletion because in 2017 Unsplash changed their license to something that's no longer compatible with the Commons' requirements. (As an aside, it's quite a coincidence that you found just the image on Unsplash that Bather uses on their About page. I couldn't find it on Unsplash via Google Images. Maybe you could provide a link?)
 * You can't quite simultaneously complain that I "threatened you with personal information" and "0 verification as to whether or not this info actually applies" to you. Are you saying that you are not associated with Bather in any way? Pinging who has reviewed the off-wiki evidence. Huon (talk) 22:33, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Having seen what is referring to, I can confirm that it would have to be quite an extraordinary circumstance for you to not (currently or previously) have a connection here, and our Terms of Use require declaration of this. Given your apparent attempts to cover this up, it looks to me like you're wilfully choosing to break the Terms of Use. stwalkerster (talk) 22:45, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, I asked Beccasouthcott to disclose their paid status after seeing that off-wiki evidence, and before replying me on my talk page he tried his best to destroy them, but unfortunately, they are still visible on Google. GSS (talk |c|em ) 04:43, 30 July 2019 (UTC)