User talk:Bpfeiff

March 2023

Hello Bpfeiff. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Bpfeiff. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bpfeiff|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, do not edit further until you answer this message. MrOllie (talk) 23:01, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the explanation, @MrOllie. I have added a disclosure; I'm sorry I was not aware of that. I would like to update the page now. The information that is currently there is outdated and some is incorrect. I have tried to be neutral in describing the the company in my update. I have provided several sources and believe that what I am contributing is factually correct and not opinion. Bpfeiff (talk) 23:26, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you have factual changes to suggest, you may make those suggestions on the article's associated talk page. See links in the message above for how to do that. You may not edit the article directly to turn it into a promotional piece - that is not the writing style used on Wikipedia. - MrOllie (talk) 23:28, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Respectfully, it is not a promotional piece. The current article says that Natel Energy makes the HydroEngine. It does not do that. The proposed changes say that Natel Energy has published papers. They have done that, and those are cited. Bpfeiff (talk) 23:34, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was obviously promotion. This is a common issue with editors who come from a marketing background - they are so used to writing in a particular style that they do not recognize how their writing style is incompatible with an enyclopedia. MrOllie (talk) 23:42, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see and why could you not respond to the content itself instead of blocking me? Bpfeiff (talk) 23:49, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why have you reverted to incorrect information instead of checking to see what of what I posted might be correct? That doesn't seem to be very much in the spirit of an encyclopedia either. Bpfeiff (talk) 23:51, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not the person who has done either of those things. But, again, there is a procedure for you to request factual changes. You decided to replace the article with an advert again instead. MrOllie (talk) 23:56, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for advertising or promotion.

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 ~~~~}}. Bbb23 (talk) 23:37, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]