User talk:TrueCrimeNewsWeekly

August 2021
 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.

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What is your connection with this website? 331dot (talk) 17:21, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

My name is Serkan Ozturk and I am an investigave journalist and the publisher of the website, True Crime News Weekly. As you can see there are credible third party links throughout the article both about myself and the website. The article itself meanwhile has clearly been written in a dispassionate, professional and objective manner. I would also like to use my account to edit other Wikipedia articles in a similar professional manner from time to time as I am a regular user of the resource. As mentioned before, I was not aware of the rules regarding organisation names. TrueCrimeNewsWeekly (talk) 22:50, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
 * So you are not paid for your work as an investigative journalist? 331dot (talk) 00:58, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

I do not draw a wage from the website as there is no sponsor, benefactor or grant money behind it. It runs purely on subscriptions although almost everything is free to read. The money the website makes from subscriptions is lower than the Australian minimum wage. All of the money goes back into running the site and keeping it alive. I can honestly say I do not 'profit' from my journalism. I write for the public interest and as the references I have included in the Wikipedia article show we have broken major political stories here in Australia.

I was largely putting up the article as we have broken a number of major political articles and we are mentioned elsewhere on Wikipedia in an article about 'Sharri Markson' and so believed it was time that a short,professionally written article about our well known news website is placed on Wikipedia.

This isn't about promoting my brand, it's about documenting an important part of the Australian media landscape. That is clearly portrayed in the article itself, which is referenced with third party sources throughout. TrueCrimeNewsWeekly (talk) 01:28, 25 August 2021 (UTC)