User talk:SLPteam

April 2021
Hello SLPteam. 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:SLPteam. 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. MrOllie (talk) 19:54, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Here is an example how MrOllie responds to questions regarding COI. Muhur (talk) 20:26, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * , Ask a silly question, get a silly answer. In any event, please don't distract paid editors who are currently in violation of Wikimedia's terms of use with irrelevancies. MrOllie (talk) 21:30, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Dear MrOllie. I do not consider questions regarding compensation for wikipedia contributions as "silly", do you? Since it is not my intention to distract I will carry on this discussion elsewhere. Muhur (talk) 23:09, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

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

You may request a change of name and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, 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. In your reasons, you must:
 * Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
 * 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.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

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. GeneralNotability (talk) 00:35, 13 April 2021 (UTC) Dear MrOllie, I am not being compensated to update this wiki page, I'm simply updating some outdated textual information in a neutral voice. Simulations Plus has acquired new subsidiaries, products and services since 2018. Our Wikipedia page contains vital information to the public that should be updated. I used public press releases and our public site as references. Please let me know what further steps to take to continue updating this page. I can provide different references or citations if needed. SLPteam (talk) 22:16, 13 April 2021 (UTC)


 * , If you're not an employee, why are you referring to it as 'our public site'? - MrOllie (talk) 22:38, 13 April 2021 (UTC)


 * , it's clear that you are employed by the subject of the article you're editing. That alone is enough to qualify you as a paid editor and therefore bound by Wikipedia's mandatory, non-negotiable paid editing disclosure policy.
 * Secondly, your username violates Wikipedia's username policy, and you won't be allowed to continue editing until it is changed. Usernames cannot represent a company, organization or group of people; nor can it represent a position within an organization. Accounts must represent only one individual - the same individual - for the account's entire lifetime. You cannot share access to an account. You must select a new name as part of an unblock request, as detailed above.
 * Thirdly, writing about your own company is a conflict of interest. Wikipedia has little interest in what a company wants to say about itself. We rely on information from sources that are both reliable and independent of the company have chosen on their own to publish about the company. Your own company website is a primary source which can be used only in limited circumstances. Press releases and other company-authored material are self-published and therefore considered unacceptable.
 * Assuming you decide to request an unblock, and comply with the paid editing policy and conflict of interest guidelines, you should avoid editing the article directly. Instead, you should limit your contributions to edit requests on the article's talk page. This will give other uninvolved editors the opportunity to review your requested changes. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 23:34, 13 April 2021 (UTC)