User talk:Divine Official
September 2020
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Hello Divine Official. 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 on the user page (Special:MyPage) of the new account, or, if you are requesting an unblock of this account, below the blue block notice box, as you can currently not edit your user page directly. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Divine Official|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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:56, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose. Additionally, if your contributions to Wikipedia form all or part of work for which you are, or expect to be, paid, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.
Please also note that you are permitted to use a username that contains the name of a company or organization if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page.
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Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 12:59, 13 September 2020 (UTC)Unusual situation
[edit]The situation is a bit unusually complicated, since the represented performer is not a living person, but you have stated that you "administer Divine’s estate". Your account is currently a role account for the administration of the estate, and its unspecific name implies that any successor could also take control of this account. The English Wikipedia does not allow this kind of usernames (cf. WP:ROLE/WP:ISU).
Furthermore, the disclosure in Special:Diff/978087683 might not yet meet the strict requirements of the paid-contribution disclosure policy (and the Terms of Use). You can post such a mandatory disclosure on the user page (Special:MyPage) of the new account, or, if you are requesting an unblock of this account, below the blue block notice box, as you can currently not edit your user page directly. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:09, 13 September 2020 (UTC)