User talk:Travfurler

Hello Travfurler. 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:Travfurler. 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. -- VViking Talk Edits 13:59, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello,

I can confirm there is absolutely no financial promotion or any kind of promotion/compensation involved in this. I have only linked to the about us page to show information about Kimberley and not the home page or any product pages. I am not sure how I can prove there has been no financial stake other than to provide bank statements or a letter from the Travfurler accountant but can categorically state this has not occurred. No further edits are required for now thank you. If you need to discuss further, of course we can. Travfurler (talk) 14:26, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Your username
As noted above, your username is a blatant violation of our username policy, and your editing here without making a disclosure of your connection with that company is a breech of the terms of use of this website. The only reason I have not blocked you account from editing is because I have just nominated the page in question for deletion, and it only seems fair to allow you to make the case for its retention. HOWEVER - before making any further edits to any article here, please read both COI and PAID, and request a change of username by following the instructions given at WP:UNC. It's fine for your username to mention 'Travfurler', but it needs to identify you as an individual (e.g. Jo@Travfurler) - it cannot simply represent the company, or indicate that it is a role account (so Marketing@Travfurler would not be permissible). I'd also ask you to confirm that only you will ever use this account, and that nobody else has access to the password. Thanks Girth Summit  (blether)  15:22, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I don't understand why you would consider this page now for deletion. It does appear the Microsoft link is now dead however here is one of Kimberley with UK CEO of Microsoft Cindy Rose from the Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/apprenticeship-scheme-is-a-tax-on-business-says-whitbread-chief-hcsbrhcjf?shareToken=df53eb2eadecacb612e52b8c04d8350d

Another article link - Meeting Theresa May etc https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/first-female-to-win-a-microsoft-apprentice-of-the-year-award-268395682.html

A video from Microsoft with Kimberley in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4lRo13gRfA&app=desktop

Here is another Microsoft article: https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2014/06/24/whoarethisyearswinni/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Travfurler (talk • contribs) 16:48, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I have removed your comment from the deletion discussion talk page, you put it in the wrong place. Don't worry - that discussion will probably run for at least a week, so you will have chance to make your point, and I'll even explain to you how to do it properly, BUT - you have not addressed the issues I raised with you about your relationship with the company. Undisclosed paid editing is a breech of the terms of use of this website. This is the last warning I will give you about it - you need to disclose your relationship with the subject of that article, and with the company Travfurler, as outlined at PAID, and you need to request a new username, before you make any further edits. If your next edits are not either making those declarations / requests, or asking a question about the process, this account will be blocked from editing. Girth Summit  (blether)  17:11, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

August 2020
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 or other organisation or group or a 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:45, 28 August 2020 (UTC)