User talk:ZaMediaGuy

January 2020
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 about some topic other than 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.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:22, 14 January 2020 (UTC)


 * If you work for the company and are making edits relating to it, you are a paid editor. What is your connection to? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:08, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

I don't know who is. Have you seen the edits? How is adding the founders of the tv network promotional or incorrect in any way? Have you reviewed the citation? Would you prefer I include a conflict of interest declaration?

globally renamed to ZaMediaGuy
globally renamed to ZaMediaGuy--  Deep fried  okra    20:07, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation
Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:33, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Your email
Hi! I've read the email you sent me. It doesn't say anything that could not be said here on this page, so I'm not going to reply to it via mail. I hope that you have by now understood that you crossed a number of lines – editing as an IP while your account was blocked being just one of them. If you think I have made any mistake in relation to you or your edits you can of course freely say so here. In the circumstances it is not going to be at all easy for you to be unblocked, and the standard offer suggested above may indeed be your best option. If you do choose to make another unblock request, please make sure that it is one single request only. As I said above, you'll need to 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 (I see some progress in that direction), and also describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked – i.e., the articles where you think you might make a useful contribution, but which are not connected with your employer or the people that own that company or any other companies they may own etc. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:20, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

My Reply
Thank you for taking time to respond. I was beginning to think you had something personal against me. Firstly, let me apologize for not following the rules. As a newbie to wiki editing, I was not aware of the conflict of interest rules. Since the block, I have taken time out to read and review the policies and will make sure I declare my COI's once my account is back up in 6 months. I will use the talk pages to request edits if I have a COI. You should know that there are other people, besides myself, that will be requesting edits - as you may have seen on other pages, there are factual errors on the pages I tried to edit. These people are not sock-puppets.

You should have talked to me before taking the drastic step of blocking me, I would have complied. No matter. This has been a learning experience.

Since my account is blocked and my devices are blacklisted, I have no choice but to make this update logged out. 41.193.164.148 (talk) 06:45, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, yes, maybe I would not have blocked your account if we had had this conversation first, but when we see a user with a corporate username making corporate edits, our practice is to block immediately; please understand that we are completely overrun with editing of this kind, and that some see it as a threat to our reputation for impartiality, and to whatever reputation for reliability we've managed to acquire. It's unfortunate that your access is blocked, that will be because you edited while logged out; I think it will clear in a few days. Please, whatever you do, do not make any further logged-out edits – it will delay your option to ask for a clean start (the six-month waiting period starts from when previous unacceptable edits ceased), and may permanently prejudice your chances of it being approved. If you want to make an unblock request and can't access your talk-page while logged in, you can use the Unblock Ticket Request System (there's a link to start a request on that page). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:31, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the advice, I understand the importance of maintaining credibility and so no hard feelings. See you in 6 months then.ZaMediaGuy (talk) 17:57, 16 January 2020 (UTC)