User talk:RestlessBooks

February 2024
Hello RestlessBooks. The nature of your edits 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 search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are 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 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:RestlessBooks. 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. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:04, 5 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi there!
 * This is the founder of Restless Books, Ilan Stavans. A few days ago, I was trying to edit our Wikipedia page and now I see that it was not the way to go as you explained.
 * How should I go about this? What is the process to edit the page so it is not labeled a stub?
 * Thank you for your help! RestlessBooks (talk) 20:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi. You have a Conflict of Interest regarding the article, because it's about your business, and you therefore would almost certainly struggle to write neutrally about it - the edits you made already, before your account was blocked, were written in language that sounded basically like advertising copy. This may not have been your intention, but this is the point; it's almost impossible for you to be objective about something to which you have such a relationship.
 * You therefore really shouldn't edit the page. It is not per se against the rules, but it is extremely strongly discouraged, and you would be required to disclose your relationship. It is generally better for you to suggest edits on the article's talk page, backed up by reliable, independent sources. Read the Conflict of Interest guideline carefully; it explains all of the policies surrounding this.
 * Once you understand these policies, if you would like your account to be unblocked, please follow the instructions in the block notice below to request an unblock. AntiDionysius (talk) 23:48, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must: To do this, post the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked.
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked; and
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
 * Provide a new username.

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Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text  at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Spicy (talk) 23:59, 5 February 2024 (UTC)