User talk:MattA Official

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November 2018

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I'm not sure if you have seen my reply on my talk page but I'll add it here too. Makes sure you fix the problems before republishing your edit. Thanks

Hi MattA Official, thanks for contacting me. There were mainly two problems with your edits:
Firstly all edits to Wikipedia must be verifiable by reliable sources.

Secondly, they should conform to the manual of style, the link is a bit length and I don't expect you to read it. In summary Wikipedia articles all have a consistent format that should be followed, Wikipedia is not meant to look like a webpage but an encyclopaedia. Thus, prose is generally preferred over short dot points and the table of contents must be kept. Take a look at the "iPhone X" article for a good example of how the article should look.

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Anglian Learning moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Anglian Learning. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability, you may have a possible Conflict of Interest and Needs independent references and also WP:SIGCOV. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. GPL93 (talk) 03:39, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

Hello, MattA Official, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Fraz900 (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Liz, I do not operate multiple accounts, and I have not purposefully coordinated with another user. Thanks! MattA 10:54, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Anglian Learning moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Anglian Learning (2). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. GPL93 (talk) 15:00, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Custom signature fix needed

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Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline, and related matters

Hello, MattA Official. 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;
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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. JBW (talk) 21:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is your connection to the person using the account "Fraz900"? JBW (talk) 21:06, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your message, @JBW. I appreciate your concern, but I can assure you that I have no conflict of interest with the topics I have edited. I am not affiliated with Fraz900 or any other account, and I have not received, and do not expect to receive, any compensation for my contributions. I have followed the Wikipedia policies and guidelines, and I have disclosed any relevant information on my user page. I have no intention of promoting or advertising anyone or anything on Wikipedia. I only want to improve the quality and accuracy of the articles. MattA (talk) 23:49, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts. There are many possible explanations of your connection to the other account I mentioned which would have been acceptable, but denying that there is any connection is not one of them. There is abundant evidence of a connection.

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 ~~~~}}. JBW (talk) 00:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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).

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

Request reason:

I acknowledge that I know the IRL holder of the Fraz900 account, but we are not affiliated on the platform nor have engaged in any coordinated editing. We have some overlap in topics of interest, but have not discussed contributions or other actions; I apologise if this has caused confusion.

Decline reason:

Per below. — Daniel Case (talk) 07:49, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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I'll just leave this here as a conversation piece Best, -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 00:46, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Deepfriedokra: thanks, that's pretty convincing. Doug Weller talk 08:02, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Anglian Learning

The article Anglian Learning has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence whatever of satisfying Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Almost all of the references are either pages on the web sites of the business or the schools it owns or else mere listings on a government web site. The few exceptions are not substantial coverage.

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This bot DID NOT nominate any of your contributions for deletion; please refer to the history of each individual page for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 10:00, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some comments relating to the block and your statements about it

There's no point posting the same comments in two places, but for anyone who is interested I'll just say that I've left some comments on the talk page of the other account set up to work collaboratively with this one. JBW (talk) 10:03, 8 February 2024 (UTC)⁸[reply]