User talk:Alicam

Welcome!

Hello, Alicam, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome!

In addition, I hope I've addressed the concerns you expressed at Talk:Auspice. You made good points that improve the usefulness of Auspicious, which I've converted to a disambiguation page with a Wiktionary link. Please check it out to see whether it works better now. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:25, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Clear Networks Logo.png

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Alicam. 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 conflict of interest 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Nick-D (talk) 08:51, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The short version of the above is that you should not be editing any articles related to your employer. Nick-D (talk) 08:51, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

August 2020

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for arranging for another editor to edit on your behalf to create an article on your boss, after you had been asked to adhere to WP:COI and told you needed to avoid this topic (per User talk:Nick-D#Martyn Iles).

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 ~~~~}}. Nick-D (talk) 08:28, 17 August 2020 (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).

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

Request reason:

I have been more than transparent in explaining my noob status, in trying to understand the process, in being courteous in letting you know what I'm doing, hence the message to your talk page which any nefariously-minded person would never have disclosed... Who would "out" themselves like that if they knew they'd done wrong?? I have done all I can to be honest and reasonable. I don't mind some sort of punitive action, if that's what's done around here, but to put an indefinite ban on someone's very innocent mistake is very harsh. Further, I never saw in the WP:COI where it makes clear that approaching an independent party was wrong. Can you point that out, because in looking again, I still can't see it? I genuinely thought this WAS a legitimate way to ensure no COI was possible! Alicam (talk) 06:07, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Declining as stale; you may make another unblock request when you are able to engage with us. 331dot (talk) 08:12, 6 September 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.

Blocks are not punitive, they are to prevent disruptive behavior. The block can be removed once we are assured that the disruptive behavior will end. Please review meatpuppetry, which is what it is called when editing is coordinated off-wiki. If you have a COI and ask someone else to edit for you, that person then has a COI. (leaving aside that you asked a blocked user to) Since you aren't going to be permitted to edit about your boss or anything related to your COI, what will you edit about? 331dot (talk) 07:45, 20 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]