User talk:Walter Askin

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but it appears you have written a draft for an article about yourself, at Draft:Walter Askin. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If the page has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Also, Wikipedia policy does not permit any kind of promotional editing. JBW (talk) 20:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. creffett (talk) 02:47, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020
One of your recent additions has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images&mdash;you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Copying text from other sources for more information. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:46, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of multiple accounts. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:.

block appeal

 * Ehm... This is the account called Walter Askin. What is the admitted sock, please? --Martin Urbanec (talk) 12:11, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

block appeal

 * How many people are using this account? I see comments above that the editor is "a former student of Walter Askin. He is now 90" - and now the editor (with a username of "Walter Askin", after all) says, "I am 90"? Is this Askin or not? Only one person may have access to an account, ever, and an editor may not choose a username that gives the false impression that they are someone else (ie, if you aren't Walter Askin, you may not call yourself "Walter Askin"). See WP:IMPERSONATE and WP:NOSHARING for details.
 * Regarding sockpuppetry, the relevant part of the policy is WP:MEAT: We cannot tell whether there's one person typing on that one laptop or two, but there are two accounts that are technically indistinguishable and that edit with the same intent - they are treated by Wikipedia as if they're one person.
 * I'm willing to believe that the sockpuppetry issue was an innocent mistake, but overall the situation seems somewhat convoluted, and I think we'll need more information to even suggest a way forward. Huon (talk) 20:02, 26 March 2020 (UTC)