User talk:Rapture's Andrew Ryan

January 2019
Hello Rapture&#39;s Andrew Ryan. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Nadia's Initiative, 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 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:Rapture&. 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. w umbolo  ^^^  21:29, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi - "The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic" - I don't. Please stop putting this on my talk page.


 * I buy the working together situation. I do have a question though: could you explain your username? TonyBallioni (talk) 02:11, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * cf. Andrew Ryan (BioShock) - not a promotional username. Yunshui 雲 水 07:52, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I would also be willing to accept the "working together" explanation (although we still don't allow that), save for the fact that above, you have categorically stated that you have no paid conflict of interest, while User:Andrea Burgess claims she does. I think that discrepancy needs explaining before an unblock is considered. Yunshui 雲 水 07:56, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * To be clear, if Andrea has a financial stake or conflict of interest in promoting a topic and if you edited on her behalf or at her request, that conflict of interest transfers on to you and your statement above, explicitly denying this, is deliberately and maliciously misleading. You need to explain this and you need to specify how exactly you would avoid all future conflicts of interest. --Yamla (talk) 11:20, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Ugggh. Over at User talk:Andrea Burgess, Andrea discloses that your relationship is closer than you've listed here. I'm sorry, but at this point it just looks like you are going out of your way to mislead us and I'm going to go and decline your unblock request as a result. --Yamla (talk) 11:23, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Unblock
The Arbitration Committee has reviewed a private appeal from this user and decided to unblock their account. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 21:18, 17 February 2019 (UTC)