User talk:Environmentalone

Hello Environmentalone. 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:Environmentalone. 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. ☆ Bri (talk) 19:27, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

 * What sorts of topics are you interested in editing? I would be willing to unblock your account if you agree to a conditional unblock with the following restriction: you may not create or edit any page related to Petroteq. If you agree to this topic ban, then it will apply to your account indefinitely while you are unblocked, and if you violate the restriction, you may be blocked again. You may appeal your restriction to the administrators' noticeboard 6 months after you are unblocked. Mz7 (talk) 20:33, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * After further review and consultation with a checkuser off-wiki, I am rescinding this conditional unblock offer and would recommend to reviewing administrators that the request be declined. In my view, it is more likely than not that Environmentalone and Nikko Curtis are the same user, contrary to Environmentalone's claims above—the accounts share specific behavioral and technical similarities that I would be willing to elaborate to any administrator on request. Mz7 (talk) 21:32, 30 August 2019 (UTC)