User talk:Vfinity LLC

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Hello Vfinity LLC. 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:Vfinity LLC. 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 14:27, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

May 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.

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. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 14:27, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

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Also please understand that Wikipedia primarily is interested in summarizing what independent reliable sources state about article subjects, not what they want to say about themselves. If there is incorrect information in the article about your company, there are ways to address that, but you'll need to tell us what those are. Wikipedia articles are not meant as company listings. 331dot (talk) 19:40, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Please note the following: --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:46, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) Your username violates Wikipedia's username policy. You cannot use the name of your business as your account name. You would be allowed to use a variation of it that identifies you as an individual, for example "Alex at Vfinity".
 * 2) Wikipedia only includes articles about companies that meet its notability criteria. Your company must have already received significant coverage from multiple reliable sources that are independent of your company. We have no interest in what a company wishes to say about itself. We are interested in what third-party writers have chosen on their own to publish about it.
 * 3) If your company is notable enough for inclusion, you will have no right of ownership or control over the article's contents. Articles are paraphrased summaries of information taken from the aforementioned reliable sources, written from a neutral point of view. Both positive and negative information is fair game, provided it is presented with proper balance.
 * 4) Using Wikipedia for promotion, advertising or publicity is prohibited. Readers expected neutral, factual articles written independently of their subjects.
 * 5) Copyrighted text or images are not allowed on Wikipedia. All text and images used on Wikipedia are free for copying, re-use, distribrution and adaptation for derivative works, including commercial use. Therefore, you would have to release any copyrighted text or images under a license that is compatible with Wikipedia's.