User talk:Sprinkles2019

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Conflict of interest and Paid editing
Since you state that you are a PR employee of Halo Top Ice Cream and intend to edit the company's article, you have  a  conflict of interest as a paid contributor. Please read and comply with WP:COI and WP:PAID. Meters (talk) 23:23, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Justin Woolverton (January 9)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SamHolt6 was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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SamHolt6 (talk) 01:30, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Sprinkles2019. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Justin Woolverton, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Nathan2055talk - contribs 07:21, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

April 2019
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. MER-C 10:44, 6 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Two reasons for the block are given in the block log: promotional editing and "meatpuppetry", i.e. getting someone else to edit for you in a dishonest way. What you say about the "freelancer" seems to fit everything that I can see in the editing history, and unlike him you were perfectly open about your conflict of interest from the start. Also, his editing was blatantly promotional, enough so in my opinion to call it "spam", but yours was much closer to being neutral. It seems to me that the "meatpuppetry" was done innocently, unaware that it was contrary to Wikipedia policy, and you have made it clear that you will not do the same again, so the block is no longer required to prevent that. As for the nature of your editing, that by itself, and without the "meatpuppetry", is, in my opinion, nowhere near promotional enough to justify a ban. That being so I am in favour of unblocking your account, but the blocking admnistrator,, may like to express an opinion. (Also if any other administrator would like to comment they are welcome to do so.) The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 10:31, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with an unblock provided that they undertake not to edit about their company. MER-C 10:38, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, I would be wiling to unblock you on the basis of the weaker requirement that if you do edit about your company then you do so strictly in accordance with the conflict of interest guidelines. However, would you be willing to accept an unblock on the terms that has offered? The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:23, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you James and for responding. To clarify, for any future edits, I will suggest them on the Talk page in accordance with Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines and agree not to edit the page directly.

Since the block, I have spent a lot of time studying not only the guidelines, but also best practices for how individuals with a COI can be part of the process in improving an encyclopedic article. After reviewing the conflict of interest noticeboard, I can see what a big problem this is. I hope that my future edits can demonstrate to others that working with the community is the best policy, rather than undisclosed editing.Sprinkles2019 (talk) 15:50, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi James - I just wanted to politely nudge you regarding my question. Thank you for your time.Sprinkles2019 (talk) 14:38, 16 May 2019 (UTC)


 * When you posted your message on 1 May I waited to give MER-C a chance to comment again, expecting to come back after a couple of days, but evidently I didn't. Since she or he has made over 300 edits since then and has not replied here, presumably they don't wish to express any opinion on what you have said, so I shall go ahead and unblock your account, on the basis of your statement about your future editing intentions. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:59, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Justin Woolverton has been accepted
 Justin Woolverton, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Missvain (talk) 19:53, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
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