User talk:Loop1

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Hello, Loop1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

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The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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! JarrahTree 04:08, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Take a very close look at the items above

Consider WP:NOT, WP:ABOUT, WP:COI and whether if you are associated with Mike in any way WP:SPA could be there as well. cheers JarrahTree 04:10, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

November 2018

Hello Loop1. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Mike Nahan, 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:Loop1. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Loop1|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. Longhair\^talk 04:15, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Mike Nahan, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Loop1, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Loop1|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Longhair\^talk 04:46, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You still have not responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying you may be blocked from editing. Longhair\^talk 04:55, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning if you make any further edits without responding to the inquiry you received regarding undisclosed paid editing. Longhair\^talk 06:39, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for continuing to edit despite the request at your talk page relating to possible undisclosed paid editing, as you did at Mike Nahan.

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 ~~~~}}. Longhair\^talk 06:46, 28 November 2018 (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).

Loop1 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

The edits I made were balanced and informative. The previous version of the page was too brief and had not been updated to capture the past 12 months. Take a look at the changes before knocking them, or at least make the improvements yourself! Loop1 (talk) 06:49, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I note that you are still studiously avoiding making a response to the charge of undisclosed paid editing, which is sufficient for me to be fairly sure that you are not here for any purpose other than to line your own pockets at Wikipedia's expense. Yunshui ^雲 _水 08:38, 28 November 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.

Failing to respond or even acknowledges messages before blocking, and ignoring the various messages suggest an attitude towards editing that is not what WP:ABOUT or WP:NOT infer. JarrahTree 07:00, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You are suspected of sock puppetry, which means that someone suspects you of using multiple Wikipedia accounts for prohibited purposes. Please make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, then, if you wish to do so, respond to the evidence at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Loop1. Thank you. Longhair\^talk 09:09, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]