User talk:RegionalAuthority

August 2023

Hello RegionalAuthority. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Rajapaksa family, 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:RegionalAuthority. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RegionalAuthority|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. Dorsetonian (talk) 21:43, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for failure to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements, as you were warned above and continued editing anyway. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:21, 8 August 2023 (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).

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

Request reason:

I have no paid contract. Why was it assumed like that? I didn't get any notice before being blocked. If my reasons given in edits give that impression, that is misunderstanding. I did in good faith. RegionalAuthority (talk) 02:01, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

First, see below. Second, as for not getting notice before being blocked, scroll back up to the top of this page. You could not have failed to be aware of that before you made the edit that got you blocked. Third, if you aren't getting paid, but are doing this at someone else's behest, you're getting played because that's the sort of thing people at least get paid for before getting blocked indefinitely here all the time. — Daniel Case (talk) 06:49, 8 August 2023 (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.

You twice edited Rajapaksa family using the edit summary "As instructed by attorneys". Attorneys do not instruct random, uninvolved, editors to do their bidding. Dorsetonian (talk) 05:54, 8 August 2023 (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).

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

Request reason:

I may have put a comment when editing without knowing the guidelines but now I understand. Now it has been so long. Some users who banned me Dorsetonian have retired from Wikipedia. Please consider RegionalAuthority (talk) 00:20, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

This does not address the concerns that led to the block. You will need to go into detail about your connection with this topic, why you are following the instructions of attorneys if you have no paid connection with this topic, and tell what edits you will make. 331dot (talk) 08:40, 10 April 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.