User talk:Roblomo

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Roblomo, good luck, and have fun. DRAGON BOOSTER ★ 12:32, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Roblomo, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Synchrony Financial have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:25, 22 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 2019

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

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 ~~~~}}. MER-C 17:31, 14 December 2019 (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).

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

Request reason:

Hi, thanks for calling out the issues with the article I created for Brian Doubles. There was no intention to advertise and I while, the ban does not address a specific call out as to why I was banded I believe this was to my oversight when attempting cite Mr Doubles charity work, by linking to his actual donation page. I felt that using an expired page would not be advertising but understand that it would have been more appropriate to just use the news articles. To be clear I am in no way getting paid to make pages and do this on my own time and research. I have been editing Wikipedia articles for years and just recently have I been more interested in creating or updating pages about companies or individuals in the news. Roblomo (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I don't find this request sufficiently persuasive to unblock you myself. To prevent this from being in limbo further only, I will close the request. You are free to make another to attempt to persuade another administrator to take action. 331dot (talk) 13:12, 1 January 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.

What is your association with Synchrony Financial? A good chunk of your edits are either about the company or its personnel. 331dot (talk) 22:45, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have no direct association with Synchrony Financial. I was introduced to them via a issue with payment processing with my company. I was asked to sent up conference calls among key leadership and did research to create Bios on Key attendees of which Mr Doubles was one of them. While researching I noticed that centralized information was limited and what Wikipedia had on Synchrony was outdated. I prefer using Wikipedia vs corporate Bios as one can get cited references for more in depth research. After the meetings, I felt the Synchrony page needed updating and since there was not one on Mr Doubles I created one. I actually used other pages of CEOs and Company presidents as the template on what is presented.Roblomo (talk) 23:29, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just wondering if there is additional information you are looking for? Thank you.

Sorry I took so long to come back. So your company does business with SF? I'm not going to be on much tomorrow- any other admin is free to take action without waiting for me. 331dot (talk) 19:22, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, To clarify, many companies do business with Synchrony. In my situation, our company needed to discuss payment processing issues. I was asked to set up bios for our leadership, and when I was doing research, i felt that not much information on Wikipedia for the company. Afterwards, I took some of the information I created and made updates as I felt that a lot of the information i researched was helpful to the meeting and enabled "common ground" conversation etc.

Your draft article, Draft:Brian Doubles

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

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 edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:New Logo of Synchrony Financial.jpg

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