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I am a data professional, paid to work with open source and commercial databases. Briskmad ( talk) 18:48, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, Briskmad. Some time ago, a file you uploaded — File:Andi Gutmans by Peter Adams 2015.jpg — was tagged with {{ OTRS pending}}, indicating that you (or perhaps the copyright holder if you did not create this image) submitted a statement of permission to permissions-en@wikimedia.org. Though there is often a backlog processing messages received at this address, we should have received your message by now.
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A tag has been placed on Gian Merlino, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 19:20, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Your edit to
Imply Data 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
Wikipedia: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—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
Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk)
21:44, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Hello Briskmad. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Imply Data, 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:Briskmad. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Briskmad|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}
. 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.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk)
10:18, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gian Merlino until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.
MarioGom ( talk) 00:49, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible
conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk)
18:54, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
You have been blocked indefinitely for disruptive paid editing. See this noticeboard discussion and this talkpage discussion, followed by this edit to the article ("as discussed"??). You can request unblock from an uninvolved administrator by placing {{unblock|your reason here}} on this page. Bishonen | tålk 10:49, 26 September 2022 (UTC).
Briskmad ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I now understand better the rules for conflict-of-interest. I've added a COI box to the top of this talk page and I will be very careful to avoid editing any articles where I have a conflict-of-interest or the perception of a COI in the future
Decline reason:
You declared the COI, but you must formally declare your paid editing, which is a Terms of Use requirement. Paid editing is not limited to specific payment for edits, or specifically being asked to edit- any paid relationship triggers the disclosure requirement(such as mere employment, as you say you are). Agreeing not to make COI edits is a start, but then we need to know what edits you will make instead. 331dot ( talk) 07:40, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Briskmad ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I now understand better the rules for conflict-of-interest. I've added a COI box to the top of this talk page and updated it to explicitly note that I edited the [Imply Data] page while employed at that firm, which I now understand was a Terms of Use violation through mere employment. If this block is removed, I will not make future edits to any article which touches upon my employer, seeking to contribute instead in areas where I have expertise and interest, including computer science, geography, and history. I have more carefully studied the policies of Conflict of Interest and Terms of Use and will be careful to adhere to them.
Accept reason:
Briskmad is unblocked on the agreed condition that they will not edit Imply Data or associated pages (including talk pages), subject to the normal exceptions of WP:BANEX. This may be appealed after 6 months to any administrator (and appealed to WP:AN). Should you be unclear as to whether something is in or out, you may contact me. Nosebagbear ( talk) 19:47, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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Bishonen and
331dot:, in terms of the paid editing side of the block, this would appear to be sufficient - potentially coupled with some pagebans. The copyright aspect didn't seem to get covered much above, potentially because their amendments were viewed as acceptable, but pinging for thoughts on unblock.
Nosebagbear (
talk)
14:37, 20 October 2022 (UTC)