User talk:Emephant

July 2020
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 17:00, 31 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I am sorry for the confusion - I never stated that the edits were not tests - they were tests in terms of working out how to cite, and using other page features. I did this on my own company page, so that if anything was done incorrectly I was not adversely impacting other organisations or people’s pages. I said that I understood and realised in hindsight that editing my company page was the wrong thing to do. The affiliates that I mentioned earlier are organisations that we sponsor and give money to, but that I am not paid by to edit for - these mostly include charity and not for profit organisations, which I am happy to disclose. I have added these below:

I have read both the WP:COI and WP:PAID pages. Moving forward, I will use the request edit request edit feature, rather than editing directly on the pages I have just listed.

I am trying to learn how to Wikipedia properly, and in an ethical way, and I’m sorry for wasting everyone’s time here while working all of this out.Emephant (talk) 12:00, 17 August 2020 (UTC)


 * minor syntax edit (change to request edit in user's message so it doesn't show up as an actual edit request):  Seagull123  Φ  12:52, 17 August 2020 (UTC)   Sorry - thanks!! 😀


 * @Emephant, Wikipedia's paid editing disclosure policy requires that you provide links to your profiles on all sites where you "advertise, solicit or obtain paid Wikipedia-editing services". GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 04:32, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, this is my only Wikipedia profile. We don’t advertise for this as a service anywhere (we don’t use contractors or pay externally for this type of work in our marketing team) - I work at the company directly. Hi! I just saw your comment. Finnmiller71 is my manager. 🤦‍♀️ We are both on LinkedIn if you need to verify this. I don’t really know how else to prove that we are two seperate people.

The account Finnmiller71 is run by my manager - it is not my account. Emephant (talk) 09:34, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

May 2020

 * You said the word "we" a lot in this request. Is this account used by multiple people? Anarchyte  ( talk  &#8226;  work ) 13:56, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

We refers to my company. I was blocked for editing my company’s page.

I’m the only person using this account.

I’ve also noticed errors in pages I can’t submit to be fixed in any way - not even as a suggested edit because I’m blocked. Eg. “Prince Henry” is currently listed as Prince Harry’s HRH title on his wiki page. Emephant (talk) 01:17, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Um, "Prince Henry [of Sussex]" is his official title. "Harry" is the English short form of "Henry" and has used since the medieval era. The article's title uses "Harry" as per the WP:COMMONNAME policy. Also, see WP:SOVEREIGN. Matuko (talk) 03:52, 10 October 2022 (UTC)