User talk:BillWikiAsk

Regarding my ban
@GeneralNotability: I am Bill and I acknowledge my ban and I understand it. I did engage in sockpuppetry with the following accounts:, , ,. I used them to email Wikipedians about Wikiask, a project I co-founded and that I thought could appeal to the Wikipedia community.

A455bcd9 (Antoine Dusséaux) is one of the Wikipedians I contacted. He isn't a sock puppet. He became interested in Wikiask and then contacted some Wikipedians as well. He then withdrew from Wikiask. I believe he should not be banned for my behavior. BillWikiAsk (talk) 17:50, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * Hi! I have few questions for you. All those sockpuppet accounts that you were using have been created 6-8 years ago. Was it you who created them? Why did you need multiple accounts back then?  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:12, 14 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you for responding, The accounts were created by other Wikiask team members before Wikiask even existed. I did not personally create them. They all sent messages about Wikiask on my direction, so I take full responsibility. Everyone on the team now knows that mass messaging through emails or other means is prohibited. To be clear, there are no other accounts related to Wikiask besides the ones listed and disclosed in the sock investigation. BillWikiAsk (talk) 18:51, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Those accounts have been used to create promotional (probably paid) articles. Most of those articles are now deleted (Salvation Army Radio, Jairek Robbins, Shawn Stratton, MT Educare Limited and many others). This was years ago, but still, it troubles me that you are founder of an organization whose "team members" were using Wikipedia for WP:undisclosed paid editing. I think that we can't trust you that your goal here is to "grow reliable, trustworthy information".  Vanjagenije  (talk)  23:33, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Noted, Vanjagenije. I understand your position, but hope that you reconsider in the future, after I’ve shown evidence that my goal is to contribute to free and open knowledge. BillWikiAsk (talk) 19:52, 22 November 2022 (UTC)