User talk:Jhofferman

May 2020

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Laura Ruth Walker—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 23:16, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:BCN3D Technologies has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:BCN3D Technologies. Thanks! HighKing⁺⁺ 21:22, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: BCN3D Technologies (July 14)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Locomotive207 was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:BCN3D Technologies and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:BCN3D Technologies, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

🌀Locomotive207-talk🌀 16:09, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jhofferman! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! 🌀Locomotive207-talk🌀 16:09, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Fboy Island (July 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Mcmatter were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Jhofferman/sandbox/Fboy Island and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to User:Jhofferman/sandbox/Fboy Island, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 04:34, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: FBOY Island (July 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Nearlyevil665 was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:FBOY Island and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:FBOY Island, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

nearlyevil665 08:11, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: BCN3D Technologies (September 30)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by 331dot was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:BCN3D Technologies and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:BCN3D Technologies, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

331dot (talk) 21:53, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:FBOY Island

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 09:01, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:FBOY Island

Hello, Jhofferman. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "FBOY Island".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CptViraj (talk) 11:29, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:BCN3D Technologies

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:12, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:BCN3D Technologies

Hello, Jhofferman. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "BCN3D Technologies".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:22, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Jennifer Kristen Howell

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A tag has been placed on Jennifer Kristen Howell, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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. PRAXIDICAE🌈 19:09, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

July 2022

Hello Jhofferman. 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 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:Jhofferman. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jhofferman|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. PRAXIDICAE🌈 19:14, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Jhofferman, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jhofferman|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. PRAXIDICAE🌈 19:46, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Sorry, I wanted to deal with the speedy deletion issue first. I was in fact compensated for writing the article and I will attend to the disclosure right now. As we know, ignorance is no excuse, but I was unaware of the requirement. Apologies. Jhofferman (talk) 19:50, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

{{Connected contributor (paid)|User1=JHofferman|U1-employer=Jennifer Howell|U1-client=Jennifer Howell|U1-otherlinks=Insert relevant links, such as relevant affiliations, disclosures, article drafts written by paid editors, or diffs showing paid contributions being added to articles.}} Jhofferman (talk) 20:03, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

you need to add this to your userpage along with a link of where you advertise your services. This applies to each article and each client. PRAXIDICAE🌈 20:05, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Done Jhofferman (talk) 20:28, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't see a link to where you advertise your services. Please follow the instructions here. PRAXIDICAE🌈 20:30, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Sorry you have to deal with a brain-dead correspondent. Link added. Let me know if I screwed anything else up. I just saw that I specifically mention Wikipedia in my profile, which I last edited some years ago. If that's undesirable, let me know and I'll be happy to delete it. Jhofferman (talk) 20:45, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Please also note that you must not create or move articles to mainspace regarding subjects for which you have been paid. You must follow the conflict of interest guidelines. For an article which does not yet exist, you must create a draft, and then request review by articles for creation, not move the article to mainspace yourself. If you do this once again, you will be blocked from editing. For articles which already exist, suggest your edits to the talk page, and then add {{request edit}} for review by an editor without a COI. In no case may you directly edit mainspace with a subject for which you have a paid COI. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 00:53, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

I don't think threats are appropriate at this time. Everything I've done has been in good faith and I will do whatever I can, now and in the future, to abide by Wikipedia rules. If you want to block me now, knock yourself out. While I've gotten paid to write/edit a handful of articles over the past couple of years, I don't depend on Wikipedia (or Upwork, for that matter) to pay my rent.

I understand that you all have to deal with a lot, but I think it's really important to be able to distinguish between bad actors and people who make occasional missteps. If there are specific steps I can take now to ameliorate my transgressions, please let me know. Jhofferman (talk) 01:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

BTW, I did create a draft and couldn't see how to request review. I assumed I wouldn't be able to move it into the mainspace if it was not a legitimate step. Jhofferman (talk) 01:48, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

It is generally expected that paid editors will be familiar with Wikipedia's policies, and not need hand holding from volunteers. Chief among those is that the fact you can do something does not mean you should. (As an example, I could go modify your comment above to make it look like you said something completely different than you did, but it would be utterly unacceptable for me to do that.) The Articles for Creation link I gave you should show you how to go about that. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 05:23, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Fair enough, and I again acknowledge and apologize for the mistakes I made. However, let me respectfully suggest that, while I appreciate your work, understand your feelings about paid editors, and fully support Wikipedia's efforts to guard against its being turned into yet another outlet for self-promotion and hype (something I always discuss with my clients), there may be better ways for you to communicate that don't unnecessarily alienate sympathetic contributors. For now, I think I'll simply curtail my Wikipedia activities, both paid and unpaid. Jhofferman (talk) 05:58, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Sockpuppeting

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.2A02:C7D:3173:4300:F8E6:13E6:104E:278B (talk) 09:28, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

I have only ever had one account, based on my real name (Jon Hofferman), through which all of my work on Wikipedia has been done. Because of the unpleasantness of the last experience, I have stopped accepting paid Wikipedia jobs. I continue to support Wikipedia financially. Jhofferman (talk) 18:38, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

• There is a suggestion in the media, see for example here "Exclusive: Vivek Ramaswamy Paid to Have His Soros Fellowship and Covid-Era Role Scrubbed from Wikipedia Page", that you have accepted at least one paid editing job since September 2022. Care to comment? --Bejnar (talk) 18:39, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks for bringing this to my attention and, yes, a comment seems in order. As I explained in the discussion on the talk page for Ramaswmay's article, I agreed to take the job because I had done a previous revision of the page in June 2022, and his assistant asked if I could make a few updates. I was hired and began the revision in January, before he declared his candidacy (which I found out about the same way as everyone else). It mostly involved adding information about his books and about Strive Asset Management, but there were also some excisions made, including details about Roivant subsidiaries and some other past activities that seemed to be cluttering the narrative without adding anything substantive. Apparently, some of the requested deletions may have been less innocent. While I frequently had to explain to him and his press secretary about Wikipedia's guidelines and why I couldn't do some of the things they wanted, I guess I wasn't as diligent as I should have been. I wasn't hired to delete material about the Soros Fellowship and his Covid-era role, but it's not inaccurate to say that he "paid to have it scrubbed." Needless to say, I regret my role in this. Jhofferman (talk) 19:43, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:BCN3D Technologies

Hello, Jhofferman. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "BCN3D Technologies".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:25, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

I've raised an accusation of paid editing by you at ANI

The source for the accusation is [1] which mentions you by name. Doug Weller talk 06:45, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Jhofferman/sandbox

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Your draft article, Draft:Jhofferman/sandbox

Hello, Jhofferman. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:55, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

August 2023

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain namespaces ((Article)) for abuse of editing privileges.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Valereee (talk) 19:44, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi, considering that my Wikipedia contributions these days are pretty much limited to fixing typos and grammar in articles I happen to be reading, being blocked won't matter much. However, I would appreciate knowing what this is about. Thanks. Jhofferman (talk) 19:52, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

It's about direct editing to Vivek Ramaswamy without listing yourself on that talk page as a connected contributor. You edited there a week ago, and you're the second editor both by number of edits and by amount of text added. FFR: don't edit where you're paid. Just make edit requests. Valereee (talk) 21:03, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

You're right. After making some final revisions and ending my paid gig in March, I added a comma on August 13. My bad. Won't happen again. Jhofferman (talk) 23:36, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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).

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

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Request reason:

I was blocked because of controversies surrounding my work on the Vivek Ramamawamy page. I thought the block applied only to that page (which I think is wrong, but is fine with me), but apparently I can no longer edit any pages in Wikipedia. This makes no sense that I can see. Jhofferman (talk) 20:31, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

You can no longer edit any articles but are still free to make edit suggestions on article talk pages. If you wish to be unblocked, you need to agree to refrain from directly editing anything you've been paid to edit. Yamla (talk) 11:59, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

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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.

No objection to unblocking with a condition of not directly editing anything they've been paid to edit. Valereee (talk) 01:24, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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

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Request reason:

I'm happy to to agree to refrain from directly editing anything I've been paid to edit, especially since I'm no longer being paid to edit anything, and I don't plan to take any paid jobs in the future. Jhofferman (talk) 19:16, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

I'm asking once more that my block be rescinded. I keep coming across formal errors on various pages, and my natural response as a copy editor is to fix them. As previously noted, I'm no longer accepting paid work. You can rest assured that this is the last time I'll ask. Jhofferman (talk) 22:47, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I've unblocked, on the understanding that you won't directly edit anything you've been paid to edit. Apologies for the delay. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:01, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. Jhofferman (talk) 20:26, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

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