User talk:MarMurs

Conflict of interest?
Hello, MarMurs. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:


 * avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
 * instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the request edit template);
 * when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 15:20, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Blocked
You were warned about our policies around conflicts of interest but you have refused to declare your conflict. I have confirmed that you have edited University of Miami Patti and Allan Herbert Business School and I have confirmed that you have a conflict of interest there, as you uploaded File:University-of-miami-patti-and-allan-herbert-business-school-logo.png claiming this as your own work. As you hold the copyright to the University's logo, you must have a conflict of interest. WP:GAB explains how to craft an unblock request. Note in addition to declaring your conflict of interest, you will likely need to agree to refrain from any further direct edits in any subject area for which you have a conflict of interest. --Yamla (talk) 17:24, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Hey there, I "owned" it because I create the logo, as a freelancer. I don't work for the university.

Unblock requests
You have made an unlock request at UTRS,. I have declined that request, and for convenience of reference I am posting a copy of what I said at UTRS below. In fact UTRS is essentially for the very small minority of unblock requests which for one reason or other can't be posted on a user talk page, usually because the editor's talk page access has been removed. Since no such reason applies in your case, any unblock request should be made on this page. It is usual for the blocking administrator to provide instructions about how to post an unblock request on the user talk page of a blocked editor. Since for some reason that was not done for you, here is the information.
 * If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock. To do so, first read the guide to appealing blocks (if you haven't already done so) and then add the text at the bottom of this page, replacing the words "Your reason here" with appropriate text.

Here is the message I posted at UTRS:
 * Firstly, ignorance IS an excuse, and I am very willing to accept that new editors genuinely do things which are contrary to Wikipedia policies because being new they didn't know about those policies. I did so when I was new to Wikipedia, and I don't condemn others for doing likewise. However, in your case, even if you were ignorant of the relevant policy issues when you first started, you had been informed of them long before your account was blocked, but you had continued to edit contrary to those policies. I am also unwilling to unblock on the basis of an unblock request which states that for the last year you have been in a "position" with a university despite the fact that six months ago you unequivocally stated that you did not work for that university. I doubt that any administrator will consider unblocking you as long as that anomaly remains unexplained. JBW (talk) 22:18, 7 June 2021 (UTC)