User talk:Mmerocknroll

August 2021
Hello Mmerocknroll. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to User:Mmerocknroll/Smart Living Lab, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Mmerocknroll. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Longhair\talk 09:51, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Comment: Reviewing administrator should also review User_talk:Smartlivinglab. -- Longhair\talk 10:11, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Note to reviewers that this user seems to be approaching others to help advocate for them. 331dot (talk) 14:57, 17 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello! I was personally approached by the editor @Mmerocknroll. Being an unexperienced editor first an account with the name Smartlivinglab was created, that was blocked because no COI was given. So a new account was created coming from the same IP and block as well. This is all unfortunate, but won't happen again, as I have now instructed the editor how to state the COI on both the article concerned and on the user page. Is there a way to unblock? Thanks for your advices! @Longhair and @Yamla would you be so kind and review the blocking decision again? Much appreciated! Thanks! – Quaenuncabibis (talk) 14:29, 20 September 2021 (UTC)