User talk:RockTheBlockchain

Your submission at Articles for creation: Harmony (blockchain platform) (September 4)
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-Liancetalk/contribs 13:47, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Important notice
Victor Schmidt (talk) 17:25, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021
Hello RockTheBlockchain. 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 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:RockTheBlockchain. 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. 331dot (talk) 17:47, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
 * We are also concerned about the repeated use of the word "we" in this account's edits. Does this account represent more than one person? -- Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  14:08, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for the review and feedback. I am a supporter of the Harmony project and run a community validator on their chain and have collaborated with two fellow supporters on writing the content we're attempting to publish. This is why I say "we" in my updates here - I am simply referring to myself and fellow supporters who are contributing on this together. As for payments and compensation - I am not employed by Harmony nor am I receiving or plan to receive any monetary compensation, fiat or crypto, for this work. To be clear once more, I am a supporter who runs a validator to help secure their network and simply hoping to help the community by helping to write this article.

That said, we (I and my fellow supporters helping) will simplify this article so that it's less referencing Harmony's technical documentation and strictly third part sources. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. RockTheBlockchain (talk) 20:53, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

-- Team: Can I continue editing and attempting to clean up the draft now that I replied above? I'm not sure if you'd like for us (fellow supporters and myself working on this [see edit sources]) to wait for a reply or if we should continue now that we responded above. Thanks in advance. I'll wait another day or two before continuing with the edit if we don't hear back. I'm unsure if you'll see this or get a notification. This is my first Wikipedia article so forgive my ignorance on how this works. Thanks again. RockTheBlockchain (talk) 14:35, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

October 2021
I will let another admin decide on this one but ... far too many people in the past have tried to prove to us that they really were different people by making exactly the same offer of proof as you: See all these different accounts on other websites? Speaking of YouTube clips, we even once (in my memory; it may well have happened on other occasions) had someone link to one to say "I'm that person in the video, and the other person is [other account]". It didn't work. To make my point unsarcastically, we cannot accept your evidence because there is no way for us to independently authenticate it. Daniel Case (talk) 04:23, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * declined 's unblock request, which was roughly along the same lines as yours, rather succinctly: "See WP:MEAT". In other words, even assuming you and the other accounts are separate people, what you did violated policy. I should also add that your claim that you have no WP:COI is not credible. Whether you are paid by the organization as a "validator" or are a volunteer, you are still affiliated with them and still have a COI. You can keep tweaking your unblock request if that makes you happy, but it's unlikely to do any good.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:41, 5 October 2021 (UTC)