User talk:Jyaufman

August 2016
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at National Association of Underwater Instructors, you may be blocked from editing. RexxS (talk) 20:37, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at National Association of Underwater Instructors. RexxS (talk) 20:44, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

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 why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. Katietalk 01:01, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

I have reverted to this page. You are not allowed to remove block messages while the block remains in force. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 20:50, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * According to WP:REMOVED, the only (relevant) notes that may not be removed are "Declined unblock requests regarding a currently active block"; the block notice itself may be gotten rid of. Huon (talk) 21:30, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, my error (although I feel personally that the policy there is wrong). Block request is now refused - not by me. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:41, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Some advice
Look James, I'd like to try to be helpful here.

This is the relevant edit history of the NAUI article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Association_of_Underwater_Instructors&offset=20160824000000&limit=20&action=history

Editing as an IP, you added the information that Peter Southwood reverted, and you restored it. I then removed as promotional, and I dropped you a welcome message on the talk page of your IP, adding that you need to look at our COI policy, and asking you not to make claims like you turned NAUI into the "Technological leader within the Dive Industry", sourced only to your CV. That's a big claim and we want independent sources for that. Your online CV is not an independent source. Credit to you, you made an account as suggested in the welcome message. Unfortunately, you promptly put the promotional material straight back. You were reverted and warned, but you added the material for a fourth time.

Now, do you understand what four editors have been telling you? I think you do because after the fourth revert, you started adding material much more cautiously, but you're still trying to slip your CV in as a reference. I hope you don't think there's any chance of it bringing any business your way, because all external links from Wikipedia are marked as "no follow", so the search engines ignore them.

As for your unblock notice, it's no use asking whether your efforts were part of NAUI history, etc. because the only evidence you've offered so far is the CV that you wrote yourself. If you can find a magazine or news article talking about your efforts for NAUI, then you would have a decent basis for making a contribution to the NAUI article, but it still wouldn't be a reason to unblock you.

If you want to be unblocked, please write an unblock request that says you understand that you added promotional material and won't do it again. If you're unblocked, find what independent sources have written about the work you did and summarise them. But be prepared to find that none exist: in that case I'm afraid that Wikipedia isn't the place to be writing about the work you did for NAUI. --RexxS (talk) 23:59, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Rexxs, it had nothing to do with bringing any business my way, it had to do with facts, which are a part of the NAUI history; "Sources Magazine" listings.
 * http://nebula.wsimg.com/b9bde3ebf91fe4a98637da83be3c3774?AccessKeyId=504E5984DCB851909C08&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 page 71
 * http://www.archive.xray-mag.com/content/naui-adds-rescue-diver-elearning
 * https://issuu.com/divenewsnetwork/docs/sedn_1111 pg 7


 * I will support the unblock request from RexxS. I also watch the NAUI article.
 * , I strongly recommend that you declare COI on the NAUI article and make your proposed contributions on the article talk page, where they can be discussed and adjusted until they are acceptable to a non-conflicted editor such as RexxS or myself (or any of several thousand other possibles - nothing special about us except that we watch the page and know a bit about diving). When we think it is up to Wikipedia standards one of us will copy it into the article, and the information will then very likely remain there, though it may always be improved and expanded. It would also help establish good faith if you were to contribute reliably referenced useful and interesting encyclopaedic information to the article about things in which you do not feature at all. Cheers, &bull; &bull; &bull; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 20:29, 26 August 2016 (UTC)