User talk:StroudGreenGirl

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March 2018

Hello StroudGreenGirl. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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, and if it does not, 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:StroudGreenGirl. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=StroudGreenGirl|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ~ Winged Blades^Godric 11:43, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines.

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 ~~~~}}. TonyBallioni (talk) 11:54, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am a bit confused here as I fully read the publishing your first article advice and it didn't say that I had to declare I was linked to the company. If I had known that I would have declared it from the outset! I thought I'd remained factual in the text of the article and provided 3rd party references to back up each statement made. I used Wikipedia entries for comparable companies (Trunki & Joseph Joseph) as examples when drafting this entry.

StroudGreenGirl, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Cycloc for their contributions to Wikipedia.

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).

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

Request reason:

I thought I'd remained factual in the text of the article and provided 3rd party references to back up each statement made. I used Wikipedia entries for comparable companies (Trunki & Joseph Joseph) as examples when drafting this entry StroudGreenGirl 12:31, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Decline reason:

You haven't addressed concerns around your article on Julia Ratcliffe. However, that aside, there are three central problems here. You violated Wikipedia's terms of use by editing without disclosing your conflict of interest (at least, you did not declare this until after you were blocked). Your articles don't appear to reach the threshold required by WP:NOTE. And finally, it looks like this is your only intention. That is, your only goal here is promotional. Yamla (talk) 12:43, 28 March 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.

StroudGreenGirl, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Cycloc on behalf of CyclocStroudGreenGirl 12:34, 28 March 2018 (UTC) for their contributions to Wikipedia.[reply]

Out of interest what concerns are there on the Julia Ratcliffe article? I can't seem to find any StroudGreenGirl 13:10, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

The issue is that you clearly aren't new and that either someone gave you the wikitext to upload directly or you've been around the block a few times and knew how to write an advertisement for a BLP that would likely evade detection. See native advertising. TonyBallioni (talk) 13:27, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unsure whether to be frustrated or flattered by that response. I am new, I wasn't given the text to upload by someone else and I certainly haven't been around the block a few times. I am an engineer and researcher so I guess that's left me with the skill of being able to draft neutral unbiased text but heigh ho if you don't need that on Wikipedia then I'm off.StroudGreenGirl 13:48, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Cycloc

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

Non-notable "brand" article created by an undeclared paid editor in violation of Wikipedia's terms of use.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /cheap shit room} 12:13, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I am a bit confused here as I fully read the publishing your first article advice and it didn't say that I had to declare I was linked to the company. If I had known that I would have declared it from the outset! StroudGreenGirl 12:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I can't currently remove the proposed deletion note as I have been blocked from doing so (see above)! How do I stop the page from being deleted before someone can make the necessary amendments to it?!StroudGreenGirl 12:41, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

On the contrary, StroudGnGirl, the 'your first article' page quite comprehensively states that The official guidelines are that editors must be volunteers. That means Wikipedia discourages editing articles about individuals, companies, organizations, products/services, or political causes that pay you directly or indirectly. This includes in-house PR departments and marketing departments, other company employees, public relations firms and publicists, social media consultants, and online reputation management consultants. —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /cheap shit room} 12:47, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Cycloc for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cycloc is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cycloc until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TonyBallioni (talk) 15:25, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet investigation

Hi. An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Nrk666, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

-- RoySmith (talk) 00:22, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nrk666 is my brother’s account. He has responded separately. Having told him what happened he was simply trying to edit my contribution down to meet guidelines. StroudGreenGirl 12:37, 7 April 2018 (UTC)