User talk:VisualCrossing

Your submission at Articles for creation: Visual Crossing (February 29)
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Sulfurboy (talk) 00:43, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

February 2020
Hello VisualCrossing. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:VisualCrossing. 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. Sulfurboy (talk) 00:44, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

There have been two problems with this account: 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 also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

If you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:
 * 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.
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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block. To do so, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the text at the bottom of your talk page, replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason for thinking that the block was an error, and publish the page. Alexf(talk) 00:57, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Also, a requested user name that still includes the company name isn't great. Your article was classic "this is what we sell", with a bit of history and awards, nothing related to our notability guidelines Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:48, 29 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the additional follow-up comments about the user name and article. I will gladly fix the user name and work to improve the article (by adding more notability points from 3rd-party sources) and other articles within the general field of interest in which we operate if given the chance. As a Wikipedia enjoyer myself, my goal was not to break any rules.  I did read the COI page both before writing and again just now for reference.  My understanding was that a "paid editor" (or someone close to the item) was permitted to edit an article if this status was properly disclosed.  (I attempted to do that before writing, but I used the tag that said I was related to the subject in question because I thought that the "paid editor" status was specifically for a 3rd-party professional writer who was paid to write an article.)  The origin of my article here was due to a reseller partner not finding our profile here and asking why we did not have an entry.  Obviously, I'm a new editor with a lot to learn.  And even more obviously, I'm going about this in the wrong way.  So any help or pointers that you can give me would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks! VisualCrossing (talk)
 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a business directory. Nick-D (talk) 22:09, 29 February 2020 (UTC)