User talk:PhillMcGee

April 2023
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for advertising or promotion. 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:. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:19, 22 April 2023 (UTC)


 * @Jimfbleak can you please help me understand why you blocked my account? This is a university project that supports educational outcomes in the developing World, in particular Malaysia. It is a joint partnership with the Malaysian government. PhillMcGee (talk) 14:33, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
 * You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. Since you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You did not do this, and undisclosed paid editors are normally blocked. Furthermore, your text was purely promotional, right down to the ™ symbol, it's not our job to protect your trademarks. Much of your text lacked independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. Some of the refs you did give did not meet those criteria.


 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections, you have multiple links to affiliated organisations.


 * You make unsourced claims about your product and what it does, such as Each year, dozens of students at Texas A&M produce capstone projects using the SCUTTLE platform... SCUTTLE Robots are payload capable out of the box... promoting collaboration and innovation in robotics research and education. 
 * It's all "this is the best thing since sliced bread" stuff. We have no idea about how it was financed and developed, what costs if any there are for the Malaysian universities, or how the collaboration works beyond the supply of the kits.::The box above tells you how to appeal; I won't consider any appeal myself, but you should get a reply fairly soon. I will abide my any decision the reviewing admin sees fit to make Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:07, 22 April 2023 (UTC):::Did you click any of the references or just automatically assume that I am a paid contributor? You are making unsubstantiated claims regarding affiliation. PhillMcGee (talk) 22:07, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
 * PhillMcGee (talk) 22:13, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Admin @Jimfbleak has made more than 80 blocks in the past week. Out of these, 75 of those blocks (93.75%) are "Indefinite". This seems excessive. PhillMcGee (talk) 22:24, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

I've fixed the code for your unblock request, so it works now.

My assumption that you have an undeclared conflict of interest is based on the fact that your first edit here was a full length, poorly sourced article about a topic that you know a great deal about, and that you added a trademark symbol too. If you are claiming that you are not an employee of, or otherwise paid by an organisation affiliated with the project, please make that explicit. If necessary, we can always ask for a checkuser report to confirm that you have no connection. Also, if you have no connection with this topic, you should clarify what else you will write about, since it's usually a condition of an unblock that you don't write about the topic that led to the block. You are correct about the Jimfbleak22 account. I set that up for one day in 2016 because of a problem accessing my main account. The contributions from that account are here please help the reviewing admin to see how these edits are abusing multiple accounts. Having declared multiple accounts is permitted Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:37, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Blanking
You are not permitted to remove declined unblock requests for your currently active block. Do not do so again. You are free to remove any other content including this message. --Yamla (talk) 18:45, 23 April 2023 (UTC)