User talk:NCIS2020

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June 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page National Coalition of Independent Scholars has been reverted.
Your edit here to National Coalition of Independent Scholars was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/ncisorg) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 17:16, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Prahlad balaji. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of an article. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. --Stay safe, ◊PRAHLAD^balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 17:30, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to National Coalition of Independent Scholars, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. --Stay safe, ◊PRAHLAD^balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 17:33, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello NCIS2020. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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:NCIS2020. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NCIS2020|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. ◊PRAHLAD^balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 18:23, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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 other than promoting your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} 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.
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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 {{unblock|Your reason here}} 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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:11, 5 June 2020 (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).

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Request reason:

Hello. There seems to be some misunderstanding here, and I'd be very grateful if you could help. 1) I am an individual, but as I only wanted to access Wiki to edit one page I foolishly created an ID with the name of the page in it. I will alter that if you wish, but I don't want to have loads of user names knocking around with my IP as it might get complicated. 2) I am NOT paid by anyone in any respect of this organization. I am a volunteer with this non-profit, and was trying to edit our existing Wiki entry, which has been there for many years before I came on the scene, to be LESS like an advert, which is what was flagged up. I feel my edits have addressed that issue, but I stupidly added external links (which the system allows you to do). I now understand that these should be inserted as links. Please excuse my ignorance -I'm a complete novice and still trying to work out how this all works. (I guess if I were a paid editing professional I'd actually know that, right?! But I'm not and I don't. I am in fact a translator and P/T university lecturer so this is way out of my field. To reiterate: this is a totally volunteer-run, not-for-profit organization. Please help me - I've messed this up and now we have a completely out-of-date entry which desperately needs updating. NCIS2020 (talk) 15:46, 5 June 2020 (UTC)NCIS2020 (aka Amanda)[reply]

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only. This unblock request has been open for more than two weeks but has not proven sufficient for any reviewing administrator to take action. You are welcome to request a new block review if you substantially reword your request. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:32, 23 June 2020 (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.

Being an unpaid volunteer triggers the required paid editing disclosure, as you are being compensated with the experience of the volunteer work. While Wikipedia strives to be accurate, it is not meant to provide up to the minute current information. Wikipedia primarily summarizes what independent reliable sources state about article subjects, not what the subject wants to say about itself. Are there other topics unrelated to your conflict of interest that you want to edit about? 331dot (talk) 16:23, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You will need to choose a username that represents you as an individual, and not a functionary in an organization. Please see WP:CORPNAME. --Deep fried okra (schalte ein) 04:17, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]