User talk:Knightja

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Articles for deletion nomination of Bishop Ida Robinson
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March 2010
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July 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Mount Sinai Holy Church of America has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30973344265. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 15:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

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July 2011
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February 2017
Your addition to Mount Sinai Holy Church of America has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:50, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

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Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Knightja. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, 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:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Bbb23 (talk) 12:43, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Warning. If you persist in adding unsourced material to Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, you risk being blocked.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:44, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * All the information that you have taken off the page is sources. http://www.mtsinaiholychurch.org/ It has all the information regarding college of bishops, district bishops, departments and other historical information. mshca 13:07, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I am the originator of the page. If you check, you will see that I created this page over 10 years ago per the request of the organization which I am a part of. In that moment, I was advisor to the board of directors on all matters of public relations and have since updated the page to keep it current. With the death of our Presiding Prelate on Oct 7th, someone with an unknown account, made changes to the page that is not reflective of the true status of the church. I only attempted to do two things; 1, revert the page to its original state, 2, provide correct information regarding its leadership as of Oct 10, 2023 mshca 13:05, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Per your conflict, you must declare your conflict on your userpage (the above notice explains how). You may not edit the article directly. You may, however, propose changes to the article on the article Talk page using . If you have any questions, please ask them at the WP:Teahouse.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:17, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
 Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, as you did at Mount Sinai Holy Church of America. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text  at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must: Bbb23 (talk) 22:26, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
 * State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
 * Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

Thank you for the reply. I actually attempted the update the article with sourced links which were taken down by bbb23. I think the problem is my failure to understand the protocol regarding the proper way to make edit request. Something I am now clear on. I am not a frequent engager on this platform so forgive my ignorance. My overall objective was to address vandalism that was continuing to occur on the page. This current entire process has now shared the correct protocol to address that issue.mshca 20:52, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

So you served as an advisor to the Board of Directors for public relations for free? 331dot (talk) 19:08, 3 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Correct, it was completely voluntary and part of my Christian service to serve. I currently do not hold that position but as part of Christian tenants, sever religious institutions without any form of payment.So the assertion that I financial stake in the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, Inc. is completely baseless and doesn't even go along with the tradition of the organization and many other pentecostal denominations who often encourage adherents to serve God through voluntary service to their church. mshca 03:37, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Request to be Unblocked
Per the history of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America Wikipedia page, you can see that I have created and provide edits for the page. Over the years, vandals have continued to place misinformation on the page. To improve the sources for several edits/updates, in my most recent additions to the page (as seen it the history tab), I included citations from published sources to support the information that was shared. In addition, edits made on November 2, were stylistic ones to revert back to the pre-May 28, 2023 version of the page. The November 2023 block on my account states that I conducted advertising or promotion. However, I am unclear of how that was done? I do not work nor have I ever worked for the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, nor do I receive compensation for any updates I do on the page. I reiterate that the updating I have done on this page was 100% voluntary and part of my Christian service to serve. I currently do not hold that position but as part of Christian tenants, serve religious institutions without any form of payment. So the assertion that I have a financial stake in the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, Inc. is completely baseless and doesn't even go along with the tradition of the organization and many other Pentecostal denominations who often encourage adherents to serve God through voluntary service to their church. IN addition, I have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements and found that those terms do not apply to what I have done with my work within Wikipedia. My edits for the account were only aimed to accomplish the following goals: keep the page uniform in format to similar Christian denominations, keep the page current and exempt form inaccurate information, increase the level of creditable citations and resources to help improve its accuracy. I again reiterate that there has not nor is ANY COMPENSATION provided to me for doing what I have done. I am unclear as to how Bbb23 came to this conclusion and would like to request the protocol for making such determinations in order to have a clearer idea as to avoid any violations in the future.. I request the block be removed from my page, and a commitment from me to provide updates per guidelines shared within the Wikipedia community.mshca 14:28, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I've converted the above from an unblock request to a comment. You may have only one unblock request open at a time.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:10, 7 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm willing to accept at face value that no undisclosed paid editing has taken place, which is what the block was primarily for. However before you are unblocked I think there are a couple of things we need to clarify, and make sure you understand. The main one is that there is a distinction between paid editing, having a conflict of interest, and promotional editing. Those are three different, but often related things.
 * You don't have to be paid, employed, or indeed have any relationship with an organisation, to edit in what we would consider a promotional way. Promotional editing doesn't only include blatant advertising, but more subtle promotion as well - which can include the removal of criticism as much as the addition of information that casts the subject in an unduly positive light.
 * If you can demonstrate that you understand the differences between WP:COI, WP:PE and WP:ADVERT and commit to not doing any of those, I think we have a way forward. As a bonus it would be good to see you take an interest in editing articles other than those relating to Christianity - in my experience, a good Wikipedia editor is one who has more than a single purpose. WaggersTALK  15:28, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the breakdown that you shared in your response. Through this process I am also aware of the proper way to address vandalism that occurs on pages. I also would be more than happy to edit other articles related to Christianity. In addition, I have taken a look at the WP:COI, WP:PE, and WP:ADVERT pages to become educated in what each one means. Working on Wikipedia has been a steep learning curve and welcome the opportunity to provide substantive support through article creation/edits to this community Waggers. mshca 16:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * This has languished. OK to decline? Or would you like to unblock? -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 06:52, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I must have missed the reply notification, thanks for the heads-up. I'm minded to unblock, unless @Bbb23 objects? W<b style="color:#97E">a</b><b style="color:#86D">g</b><b style="color:#75C">ge</b><b style="color:#83C">r</b><b  style="color:#728">s</b><small  style="color:#080">TALK  09:08, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Ah, the $64 question. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 09:13, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure it matters much what I think, but what the hell, I don't believe that the user will edit anything other than articles related to Christianity, mainly because of their statement that their editing here is "part of [their] Christian service to serve". I'm not in favor of editors who have a mission - it's akin to WP:RGW, although in some instances worse, because the real mission of Wikipedians should be to create, maintain, and improve neutrally written, well- sourced, encyclopedic articles. Biases only interfere with that goal. Their response to 's SPA question said the opposite of what Waggers wanted to hear: "I also would be more than happy to edit other articles related to Christianity". It's possible that the user got twisted in their wording, but even assuming that they are "happy" to edit other kinds of articles, what would they be?  I'm also not comfortable with their obfuscating comments re UPE. They continue to focus on the word "paid", even though they've been told that one doesn't have to be compensated to have a conflict of interest that must be disclosed. Finally, I've looked at their edits again, and their editing skills are pretty bad. Promotional, non-neutral, and full of MOS errors that will have to be fixed by other editors every time the user edits an article - and that's assuming someone is watching. For example, Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, the article they edited most heavily and the church with which they supposedly have no affiliation, has almost no page watchers, so if an incompetent editor lowers its quality, it may not be noticed. I oppose an unblock.--Bbb23 (talk) 13:48, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Completely respect your thoughts regarding the decision to block. I will reframe from additional attempts to continue to participate as a contributor to the Wikipedia community. A number of incorrect assumptions were made not only in the first instance of blocking but once again per the last comments. The back and forth isn't productive. However, through the conversations on this page, I have learned a great deal regarding protocols for editing and creating content for Wikipedia. For that I am greatly appreciative. Thanks to @Waggers @Bbb23@331dot mshca 14:35, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Noted Bbb23's concerns. I cannot see unblocking you to write about Mount Sinai Holy Church of America in particular and/or Christianity in general. .. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not the place to post "updates" or to edit on behalf of one's religion. Those belong in the subject's or religion's website(s) instead. Hopefully, adding content copyrighted elsewhere and unsourced edits will no longer be a problem.. Please update your unblock request to describe what constructive edits you would make. --  Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:24, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I completely agree that per the nature of what editors do on Wikipedia, I should not be pigeon holed into only focusing on religious organization. I have a wealth of experience in international relations, public diplomacy, and public affairs. Per your suggestion, I will update my unblock request to share this same information. mshca 16:31, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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