User talk:Spectra29485

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Potential conflict of interest
Based on your comment

Hello Spectra29485. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Active Banana    (bananaphone  17:37, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the username you have chosen (Spectra29485) seems to imply that you are editing on behalf of a group, company or website.

There are two issues with this :
 * 1) It is possible that you have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, you must exercise great caution when editing on topics related to your organization.
 * 2) Your account cannot represent a group of people. You may wish to create a new account with a username that represents only you. Alternatively, you may consider changing your username to avoid giving the impression that your personal account is being used for promotional purposes.

Regardless of whether you change your name or create a new account, you are not exempted from the guidelines concerning editing where you have a conflict of interest. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  18:24, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Undisclosed paid editing
Hello Spectra29485. 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 Spectra Music Group, and that 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:Spectra29485. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:41, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Blocked
I have blocked this account indefinitely as the sole purpose of this account appears to be maintaining pages relating to Spectra Records with promotional intent. Please review Paid-contribution disclosure first, and if you wish to contest this decision, follow the instructions at Guide to appealing blocks. Alex Shih (talk) 05:06, 28 June 2018 (UTC) --UTRSBot (talk) 16:32, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Beacon Publishing Group
Hello, Spectra29485,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Beacon Publishing Group should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Beacon Publishing Group.

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

SamHolt6 (talk) 04:21, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Spectra29485 (talk) 07:27, 29 June 2018 (UTC) Hello...I have been recently blocked. I am not sure why. It was never my intent to edit or create any page that I should not have. I was asked to reply if I was paid to edit or create a page and I stated I was not. Now, every page I have ever created or edited has flags on it about being paid to edit them. That is not fair to those companies. I do not know those companies at all. I am merely either a customer/fan or other that feels they should have a page. Is that not what Wikipedia is about? If I am asked did I receive money and I give an honest answer, why am I blocked and flags stating payments made are on the pages? If I am not going to be believed, why ask the question. Again, please don't hold my lack of wikipedia guidelines against these companies. I state again, I do not know them nor received money. There is no close relationship. I have bought Beacon Publishing Groups books and Spectra's music over time. That is absolutely it. I am happy to do better research and learn the editing process here better before coming back to do anything again. Please reconsider not hurting other companies pages that they did nothing to deserve because of an editor with a lack of wiki experience. Thanks. Spectra29485 (talk) 07:27, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Jacob Needham & The Blue Trees for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jacob Needham & The Blue Trees is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Jacob Needham & The Blue Trees until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. CNMall41 (talk) 22:52, 4 July 2023 (UTC)