User talk:Klowtify

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Conflict of interest and paid editing
Hello, Klowtify. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 03:50, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

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 * I am not paid by my company to edit. I was not paid to do so in this case, nor was it suggested to me to do so in any way. I am not a paid contributor. The reason I looked at the CEO's page was because I was trying to apply what I'd learned from Wiki help pages about "notability", and when I read the CEO's page, I saw it was out-of-date and tried to update it. That is literally it. No one at my company even knows I did this, or that I've chosen to contribute edits to Wiki pages in my personal time, or that I chose klowtify for my user name when I signed up. I manage operations and social media for my company. My role there has nothing to do with Wikipedia, the profile of the CEO, or anything else in that regard at all in any way. Klowtify (talk) 18:58, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
 * You are a paid editor. Please reread WP:PAID and WP:COI. The fact that you do your editing in your personal time is not relevant. --Yamla (talk) 13:17, 7 September 2023 (UTC)


 * 1) Disclosure - I do not receive any compensation and am not a paid-contributor. I cannot provide a disclosure because I have no paid relationships for any of the work I've done on Wikipedia. I do work for a media services company, but we do thought leadership (opinion articles) published in major news media outlets, which has nothing to do with my philanthropic desire to contribute to the greater good of the Wiki platform and community.
 * 2) Reason.1 - What specifically resulted in the block of my IP was not disclosed to me, but the last edit I did was to update the page for Greg Moore, the CEO of my company, because that section of his page was outdated. I am guessing that this is what resulted in the block, when I linked to his company website.
 * 3) Reason.2 -  I am new to the Wikipedia community. I did in fact read pages and pages of information on the community guidelines when I created my account, but I did not know I could not use my companies domain as my user name (I chose clarify because it said not to use my name, and I used my email domain because it seemed easy to remember). I made several edits across wiki suggested edits (no affiliation with any of them — in fact I’d never heard of any of them before). All were very minor edits for syntax, citation placement, etc. Then I read up on notability which prompted me to look up the CEO of my company, Greg Moore. The information about his current employment was out of date. I did not do anything with the intention of promotion or otherwise. I added his new position as co-founder and CEO of Klowtify, and I added a link to the company website. I am guessing that this is why my IP was blocked. I sincerely didn’t know I could not link to the website as a simple fact (the company where he currently works). I just as easily might have done this on any of the other pages I had edited if I’d come across the same thing. I am sincerely sorry if this violated the community guidelines. It was in no way my intention, and I’ve since reviewed how to share a factual link to a company website in an external links section (e.g. Orrick), and where possible, to link internally to a Wiki page if one exists (which no page exists for Klowtify yet). Thank you for your consideration. I work from home and lots of people use this IP. Kindly, let me know if anything further is needed.

Klowtify (talk) 18:36, 6 September 2023 (UTC)