User talk:Natedidomenico

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Speedy deletion nomination of Rip Rapson


A tag has been placed on Rip Rapson requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://kresge.org/who-we-are/rip-rapson. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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I am no longer employed by rip rapson or the Kresge foundation. I would like my account to not be associated with this article. I understand that wiki is not a place for promotions or soap boxes. I would like to have a clean slate on my account. Than you Natedidomenico (talk) 23:11, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Undisclosed paid editing
Hello Natedidomenico. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Natedidomenico. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:04, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

I am not currently being paid for edits. I am no longer employed by Kresge or Rip Rapson. I would like my account to not be associated with my past articles. Thank you, Natedidomenico (talk) 23:09, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

May 2020
Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have an undisclosed 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:
 * 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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 10:44, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Unblock discussion
Heading added ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:19, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi ,

the completely re-written article "Rip Rapson" by appeared on the main page of Wikipedia. You seem to have previously made undisclosed paid contributions to this and other articles on Wikipedia, in violation of WP:PAID and the Terms of Use.

Only when I blocked your account, you suddenly found the time to reply to the messages sent to you back in 2018. We're slowly getting towards compliance with the policies, but have probably not arrived there yet.

You write "I am no longer employed by Kresge or Rip Rapson". This is not a disclosure, as it only denies current employment without explicitly disclosing any previous employment.

To be unblocked, please provide a proper disclosure for all your previous contributions (employer, client, affiliation, article title). A list of all your non-deleted contributions can be found at Special:Contributions/Natedidomenico. There have been deleted contributions regarding Articles_for_deletion/Carol_Coletta and Articles_for_deletion/Rip_Rapson. See WP:PAID for the disclosure requirements that already existed when you edited Wikipedia.

To my knowledge (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice), there is no strict requirement for the form of such a disclosure. Simple text like "I had been paid by Employer on behalf of Client for all my contributions to the articles Example, Examplum and Exampli. This happened directly, not through a transaction broker. I am no longer employed by Employer; this is just a disclosure for my past contributions." may well already be sufficient. For me personally, it would be sufficient for an unblock.

Because you are currently technically unable to provide the disclosure in one of the three ways described there, making the disclosure here on your talk page, below this message, is fine. I will copy them to the talk page of each still-existing affected article. After providing a proper disclosure for all your paid contributions, together with your promise not to make such contributions in the future, I will unblock the account.

Regarding the "clean start" request, the closest we can probably get to this is the following: After you have provided the disclosure(s) below, and after the disclosure(s) have/has been copied to the affected article(s) talk page(s), your account will be unblocked. You will then have the opportunity to remove all messages from here, to request the account to be renamed to a pseudonym, and to use that new pseudonym at any time in the future. Your current username will be replaced by the pseudonym as far as possible, for example in the history of the articles you had edited, and in the disclosure(s) copied on your behalf. The old username will not completely disappear from all of Wikipedia's logs and pages, but if I interpret your request correctly, it will come as close to the reasonable, understandable intent behind it as possible.

Thank you very much in advance and best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 09:19, 13 May 2020 (UTC)