User talk:Rhys1234567890

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Swanseauni", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. Aloneinthewild (talk) 19:32, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

October 2017

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Swansea University. I noticed that when you added the image to the infobox, you added it as a thumbnail. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

|image=[[File:SomeImage.jpg|thumb|Some image caption]]

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

|image=SomeImage.jpg.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as |caption=Some image caption. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks! Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:20, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Swansea University

Hi, thanks for your contributions to this page, its starting to look a lot better than it was. Can I ask that you provide edit summaries since you are making a lot of iterative edits. Thanks Aloneinthewild (talk) 17:51, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry for not providing enough detail. If you follow this link (edit summaries) it will help you see where you should provide edit summary's, it is a box underneath the main edit box. Also, I've added the welcome message below - seems you never got welcomed properly. This also has some helpful links. Aloneinthewild (talk) 17:59, 9 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Hello, Rhys1234567890, and welcome to Wikipedia!

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Swansea University coat of arms is up for deletion

The file File:Coat-Of-Arms-Swansea-Uni.png is up for deletion. Please visit c:Commons:Deletion requests/File:Coat-Of-Arms-Swansea-Uni.png to discuss this deletion. Thank you. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 14:47, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for undisclosed paid editing in violation of the Terms of Use.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. – Joe (talk) 07:46, 10 September 2018 (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).

Rhys1234567890 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Hi. It just wanted to make it known that this editor was editing Pages related to Swansea University in good faith. The user approached myself and Wikimedia UK for advice before proceeding and was advised to disclose his association with the University. As far as i can tell his edits have been constructive and neutral. I cannot see his user page now, but i'm told his association with Swansea University was disclosed. I don't know all the details behind the blocking, so it may still be justified, i just wanted to make it clear that there was no deliberate attempt to disguise paid editing, by the editor. Cheers Jason.nlw (talk) 18:41, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only, third party unblock requests are not accepted. This user needs to request unblock themselves. 331dot (talk) 18:53, 10 September 2018 (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.

@Jason.nlw: They never had a user page. There was no disclosure that I can find, despite being asked to familiarise themselves the COI and paid editing policies back in October 2017. After that they continued to edit the Swansea University page as an undisclosed paid editor, a violation of the Terms of Use that is grounds for an immediate indefinite block. In addition, the edits themselves were inappropriate, being made directly to the article (contra WP:COI) and almost all promotional in tone. They also removed neutrality-related cleanup tags without explanation [1] and most recently, added an image under with a false copyright attribution (see section above).

I'm disappointed (but unfortunately not surprised) to hear that WMUK gave this editor bad advice, but any off-wiki communications you had with them has no bearing on this block. Ignorance of our policies is not an excuse, especially not when they were explicitly made aware of them. – Joe (talk) 19:05, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Joe, thanks for the clarification. To be fare to WMUK it sounds like advice wasn't followed correctly rather than bad advice. I should have followed the users progress more carefully. Thanks again Jason.nlw (talk) 06:45, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Joe Roe, 331dot, and Jason.nlw: A clear declaration was made in this edit on Commons on 7 September. While that's not on this project, it would be far from surprising if a new editor did not understand the distinction. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:14, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is far from a clear disclosure, which is required to, minimally: be on their user talk page, an affected article, or in an edit summary (on this project); specify their employer and their affiliation; indicate which articles are affected. They were made aware of these requirements, and the paid editing policy generally, in October 2017, but continued to make promotional edits without disclosure until September 2018. – Joe (talk) 05:39, 4 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]