User talk:Foodieee

April 2023
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain pages (MeliBio) for undeclared COI editing. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text at the bottom of your talk page:. Drmies (talk) 16:00, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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 * Hello @Drmies
 * Good to e-meet you.
 * I am a SF Bay Area based future of food / foodtech mega-fan. I follow startups from this industry and MeliBio is one of the companies that I follow, next to startups such as Upside Foods & Miyoko's Creamery. I am not affiliated with any of mentioned companies, I just want to contribute to the industry I am following. As for MeliBio, I noticed that there is some kind of war going on at their page. Maybe because company is making honey without bees and some beekeepers are not happy with it. Their page looked legit with tons of references, also MeliBio is the pioneer of the bee-free industry and I find them to be relevant to have a wiki.
 * I am still getting into the details of wiki editing and I am sorry if any of my actions caused trouble.
 * Foodieee Foodieee (talk) 00:32, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * No trouble, thanks. You can propose edits on the article talk page. Your edit had all the hallmarks of a returning editor, and the removal of the COI template is especially notable. How would a new editor know to do all these things? Why would you remove that tag? What would you know about the article history? Etc. Take care, Drmies (talk) 00:44, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * As I mentioned, the bee-free honey company is among food-tech companies I follow. You can see that my edits are only on pages from this industry. I looked into the Melibio page's history and I saw that there was a version of the article that was marked as promotional or something related to that. Then I saw that there were revisions made by user: 2601:646:4000:75b0:3402:d5f5:5869:1e54 that seemed to be contributing to making the article factual with neutral point of view. After that, user ABHammad restored the tag without any explanation. I looked into the ABHammad and their contributions are not existing in the world of food-tech. I don't know if there is any bias against Melibio, foodtech of bee-free honey, but I found that restoration of the tag to be non contributing to expanding the Wiki knowledge in the food-tech space. Again, I am sorry that I took this route instead of bringing this to an attention of a senior editor. Foodieee (talk) 00:57, 1 May 2023 (UTC)