User talk:Nina Trentmann

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Nina Trentmann. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Nina Trentmann, 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;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. My Pants Metal (talk) 16:13, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Your username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Nina Trentmann", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. Alternatively, you can just create a new account and use that for editing. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 16:15, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Please look at WP:REALNAME--and, of course, make your COI clear in the manner outlined in the relevant pages, linked by the previous editor. Drmies (talk) 16:16, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain pages (Nina Trentmann) for abuse of editing privileges. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Drmies (talk) 00:35, 13 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Good evening,
 * Thanks for your feedback. Agreed on the conflict of interest––however, I didn't really make substantial changes to the page. I exchanged "she" and "Trentmann" on a few occasions, as you can see when you track the changes, and exchanged one word [coverage for vertical]. Those changes can be revoked if need be. I requested to change my user name so that it would adhere to your policy but that got rejected. Nina Trentmann (talk) 03:11, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Would you be happy to agree not to edit in areas where you have a conflict of interest? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:59, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Martin, Thanks for your note and yes, happy to agree to that. Will that resolve the issue so that the page Nina Trentmann can be unblocked for edits? Thanks, Nina Nina Trentmann (talk) 13:21, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * The article Nina Trentmann is not protected. It's just your account is temporarily blocked until we resolve this issue. If you are happy to edit other articles and leave your own article to others, then I think we can unblock your account. By the way, I personally don't see any reason why you have to rename your account, as long as you are happy to edit with your real name. @Drmies, do you agree? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:26, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello Martin,
 * That would be fine by me.
 * Thank you!
 * Nina Nina Trentmann (talk) 13:30, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

MSGJ, first, I don't see any attempt to change the name or that request being rejected. WP:REALNAME is relevant here of course, but I didn't block the user for their name, though another admin might judge that differently. I thought that the editor also made the resume-style IP edit to the article, but I see now that that's not the case. (You know I have special reading glasses.) Nina Trentmann, the moment you properly declare your COI (on your user page, for instance), I can unblock you.Martin, this may interest you also: the article might well be the result of paid editing; the creator (whom I blocked) clearly comes out of a sock farm from a country well-known for its paid editors (you know I can't say more than that). To which extent this is connected to this editor is anyone's guess and I am not going to speculate. I did not know that when I reverted what I called resume-style (or promotional) edits; I am still looking and find that the IP was also a paid editor. That is all I can tell you, I'm afraid, but I am not done with it. Nina Trentman, given all these findings I can only urge you again to properly disclose your COI and to discuss any substantial changes on the talk page--and to continue to make sure your edits are neutral. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 15:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Drmies and Martin,
 * Thanks for your note. How do I declare my COI on my user page? Is there any recommended wording for that? Nina Trentmann (talk) 15:44, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's in the COI message, the first one on this page. And look where I wrote "make your COI clear in the manner outlined in the relevant pages, linked by the previous editor". But all this may be obviated by what I just found. Drmies (talk) 15:48, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

One more thing: User:Irmgard Leiber is connected to this account. Just FYI. Drmies (talk) 15:43, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

CU block
So, the technical data prove that this account, which you claim to be you and which can only be operated by you, and User:Shahroz155 are editing from the same IP range, a geographical impossibility given other information derived from your edits just now. Your article is connected to not one but two sock farms. Drmies (talk) 15:54, 18 January 2023 (UTC)


 * No, that's not true. Shahroz155 is not a sock farm. Go ahead and delete the page Nina Trentmann (talk) 17:36, 19 January 2023 (UTC)