User talk:Geoff Ullrich

August 2019
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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If you are employed by the company, then you have to disclose this information per Wikipedia's mandatory and non-negotiable policy on disclosure of paid editing. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 00:35, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
 * As noted by Drm310, if you are employed by the company in any capacity, you must declare that, you don't have to be a designated representative of the company or specifically asked by them to edit Wikipedia. Now that you know you can't edit about your company, what will you edit about if unblocked? 331dot (talk) 07:37, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

I am employed by the company, but I am not being directly paid to edit any information about them. I'm doing this on my own. If I can't add the company to the list of US-based insurance companies, can I request that another editor review the change and potentially add it? I'm sorry if I'm not following guidelines perfectly, I'm new to this and while I'm trying to educate myself on how all of this works, I'm sure I'm not doing a good job. - Geoff
 * As I said, as long as you are a company employee, you are a paid editor. You don't have to have been specifically asked to edit Wikipedia. We have no way of knowing when you are "off the clock" at home or "on the clock" at work. Yes, you can make a formal edit request on the article talk page- if you are interested in being a general contributor. What other subjects are you interested in editing about? 331dot (talk) 15:33, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything I would have any authority to edit/speak on. Like I said, I just noticed that the list was missing the aforementioned company and thought I would add it. I don't have anything else in mind. I would still like to be unblocked so that I have the possibility of editing in the future. I understand that I cannot personally edit anything related to that company and I don't intend to. In the future, I will use the edit request to make suggestions on a page where I "cannot or should not make the proposed edits" myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geoff Ullrich (talk • contribs) 15:59, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

i renamed Germania Insurance to Geoff Ullrich
I renamed Germania Insurance to Geoff Ullrich. ANother will review the unblock request, but as a rule of thumb, my conditions for unblocking in these instances can be found at this page.--  Deep  fried  okra    01:59, 29 August 2019 (UTC)