User talk:PbobsonOAI3303

COI
You have been mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Omni_Air_International Snooganssnoogans (talk) 16:44, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, PbobsonOAI3303. 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 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 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 WP: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. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 20:24, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020
Hello PbobsonOAI3303. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Omni Air International, 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 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. 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:PbobsonOAI3303. 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. —Unforgettableid (talk) 02:17, 21 July 2020 (UTC)


 * There is no conflict of interest. You are mistaken.PbobsonOAI3303 (talk) 18:58, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * You are not connected to OAI in any way?ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:01, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * No. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PbobsonOAI3303 (talk • contribs)
 * That is a little hard to believe, given your user name. Also, you say yourself here that "As an officer of the company I have the authority to use this image for our wiki site". ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:10, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
 * As of July 27, 2020 I do not work for Omni. Im not paid by them. Im just a big fan that is tired of people bashing them for no reason. What exactly would you like me to do? I should be able to edit this page and provide accurate information just like everybody else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PbobsonOAI3303 (talk • contribs)
 * It's confusing because you have said numerous conflicting things: first that you are an officer of the company, and now that you are not an employee. If you worked for them before July 27, 2020 that is more than enough of a COI. If you want to make changes to the page, suggest them at the article talk page, with references to support the changes. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:23, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Continued paid editing
You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 19:14, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

I am not a paid editor. Stop putting this stuff with my account.

July 2020
Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, as you did at Omni Air International. 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. —  Newslinger  talk   05:33, 28 July 2020 (UTC)