User talk:U B Prudent

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Hello, U B Prudent, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The discussion is at U B Prudent and Multifest.org. Thank you. 2001:BB6:4703:4A58:E407:181E:EFE0:D6A2 (talk) 11:01, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

February 2018

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without properly responding to or evade the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid/COI editing as to Multifest.org. ~ Winged Blades^Godric 16:36, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia; soapboxing

Hi U B Prudent. I work on conflict of interest and advocacy issues here in Wikipedia, along with my regular editing. As is being discussed at COIN now, your edits to date overwhelmingly cite the website multifest.org and promote the views of the person who runs that website.

I'm giving you notice of our NPOV and SOAP policies, as well our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is open to anyone to edit. Many people mistake this openness as an invitation to try to use Wikipedia to promote some idea or person or company or product. However, this is not OK under our neutral point of view policy (please specifically see WP:YESPOV) and our policy against using WP as a soapbox. You have created a Wikipedia account; this makes you a Wikipedian and part of the community. You have an obligation to learn and follow these policies and guidelines and to aim for Wikipedia's mission, to provide the world with articles that summarize accepted knowledge, working in a community. If you like please see User:Jytdog/How for an as-brief-as-I-can-make-it orientation to what Wikipedia actually is, and how it works.

As Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work, managing conflict of interest is also essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

With regard to COI management, disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (it is totally your choice to disclose that; doxing is strictly prohibited by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with multifest.org or the person who runs it, directly or through a third party (e.g. a PR agency or the like)? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happen.

Further, would you please acknowledge that regardless of whether you have a connection to that website, you have been using Wikipedia as a soapbox, and that this is not OK?

Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 17:16, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

February 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines.

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 ~~~~}}. Guy (Help!) 22:59, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia.

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 ~~~~}}. —DoRD (talk) 12:14, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]