User talk:Tsvimark


 * You were blocked for things like this. As of editing for your client, please familiarize yourself with our Terms of Use and conflict of interest policy and indicate your acceptance, including the part about disclosure. Max Semenik (talk) 08:35, 24 August 2015 (UTC)


 * To be honest... I'd actually recommend that you start afresh with a new account. Here's why: you want to create an account to help suggest edits for your company's page. (As a WP:COI editor you should try to refrain from directly editing the page unless you are adding minor details.) In essence you will be your company's representative on Wikipedia and as a COI editor, you will be heavily scrutinized. The last thing you want is to have an account whose sole edits (apart from requesting an unblock) were to vandalize Wikipedia entries. Even if your edits from this point on are 100% professional, you will always have those vandal edits in your edit history and as such, they will make you (and by extension, your company) look very unprofessional and you'll be far less likely to receive WP:GOODFAITH from other editors. Unblocking this account and allowing you to edit with it would honestly be doing you a great disservice. I would recommend that you open up a new account with a name like "Mike at WidgetUSA", with a userpage that states your conflict of interest and what the purpose of the account would be. You could mention this specific account by name if you wish, but you should be able to get away with saying "This is my second account, as an earlier account was compromised and used for vandalism". That would disclose that you had an earlier account that was blocked for vandalism, while also saying that it was someone else (if what you say is correct) that actually did this. Again, I think that a fresh start is really what you need to do in this situation, not open up an old account with a short, but bad, history of vandalism. Seriously, you don't want your professional account to be one that has an edit suggesting that someone should be shot for being a Democrat or calling another politician a "douche bag". I can't tell you how bad that looks professionally. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:50, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, you don't need to repost the unblock request. You can just reply normally, by just writing your response and signing it with four tildes like this: ~ Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:51, 29 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I have to disagree with Tokyogirl79 here. Creating a new account without addressing this block would technically constitute sockpuppetry; creating a new account to circumvent a block on an old one is itself blockable. You wouldn't want to run that risk. After this account has been unblocked would be the time to think about whether you want to continue using it or abandon it to create a new one - or maybe even create a second one for your "professional" edits and keep this one for "private" editing, though in that case restrictions apply.
 * That said, since all your edits back in 2006 were vandalism, I rather doubt the "my friends were doing it, I never edited from my own account" explanation. I was willing to simply accept the request since nine years are a long time, there have been no issues since then and people change, but this unwillingness to take responsibility for your own conduct makes me doubt the good faith of the request. You may want to comment on that. Huon (talk) 20:00, 30 August 2015 (UTC)