User talk:Tmav55

April 2019
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Aquaponics. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.  General Ization Talk  20:02, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines.  General Ization Talk  20:12, 10 April 2019 (UTC) You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. 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:. Materialscientist (talk) 21:20, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

What is your association with Go Green Aquaponics? 331dot (talk) 02:17, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I work for them, but we have legitimate content about aquaponics on our website. I wasn't just trying to pump a store. My apologies though, I now know the rules.Tmav55 (talk) 17:12, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Please read about conflict of interest and paid editing; you will need to comply with the latter once unblocked, that is a Wikipedia Terms of Use requirement and not negotiable. As you have a conflict of interest, you will not be allowed to directly edit about your company or its field(see this COI guide for more information). Are there any unrelated subjects you want to edit about? 331dot (talk) 17:20, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Am I allowed to talk about aquaponics in general? I would like to contribute to the aquaponics community given that is what I know well. Tmav55 (talk) 17:25, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * To quote the COI guide, "Do not edit articles about yourself, your family or friends, your organization, your clients, or your competitors." It would probably be difficult for you to edit about aquaponics directly; we usually ask editors in this position to stay away from direct edits in the subject area of their COI totally, to reduce the chance that they will do a COI edit.  You would be permitted to make formal edit requests on COI-related article talk pages, but only if you want to be a general contributor and edit about other things. I don't think you will find someone willing to unblock you to just edit about aquaponics, even indirectly. 331dot (talk) 17:32, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I would add that personal knowledge is not sufficient to support article content, as that cannot be independently verified. Only independent reliable sources are used here; you could not use yourself or your company's information as a source. 331dot (talk) 17:33, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Ok. I would like to be unblocked to make edits in the future. I will avoid all of the aquaponics pages. And will not touch external links in the future. Thanks for your help.Tmav55 (talk) 17:40, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * What edits are you interested in making, or what subjects are you going to edit about? 331dot (talk) 17:46, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we need to add pages related to square dancing to that commitment, in light of and .  General Ization  Talk  17:49, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

nothing to edit at this momentTmav55 (talk) 18:17, 11 April 2019 (UTC)