User talk:Gilchristcollection

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Gilchristcollection. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. — Trey Maturin™ 13:36, 30 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

August 2023

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username indicates that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. 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.
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Provide a new username.

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Gilchristcollection (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I had updated 3 pages before I received the message about COI. I updated Crowcombe Court because the information is incorrect. It said it was owned by Stockbridge but it isn't and there was a link to Stockbridge website so I thought it was OK to modify this as it was wrong. I was not using it for advertising or promotion purposes - only to put correct information in place. I also added a new and more up-to-date picture on each of the pages I edited. This again is not advertising or promotion. COI: I do work for the company so my understanding is I would have to propose the edits on the talk page. My intention is to make updates so the information is correct and not to advertise the company. Gilchristcollection (talk) 07:35, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Unfortunately an account with the username Topcat2357 has already been registered so you'll need to pick a different one. I'm a little concerned that you only intend to update information relating to the company you work for as opposed to being here to build an encyclopaedia - would you care to comment on that? Waggers TALK 16:26, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Not only should you propose edits(in the form of an edit request, click for instructions), the Terms of Use require you to make a formal paid editing disclosure as an employee. Are there any other topics you might edit about unrelated to your company as a general contributor? 331dot (talk) 09:45, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There may be other edits if I see something incorrect or needs information added. I tried years ago to add something but it was rejected so I kind of gave up! (nothing to do with a business) Gilchristcollection (talk) 07:16, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Cabayi: In your block notice, above, you said "your account has been used for advertising or promotion". Which edit or edits was or were promotional, and in what way? JBW (talk) 21:13, 15 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

JBW, check the filter log, every edit selfcites/includes their URL. Cabayi (talk) 09:17, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]