User talk:Searchicas

July 2020

Hello, I'm CommanderWaterford. I noticed that you recently removed content from OneOTT Intertainment without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. CommanderWaterford (talk) 07:11, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet investigation

An editor has opened an investigation into sockpuppetry by you. Sockpuppetry is the use of more than one Wikipedia account in a manner that contravenes community policy. The investigation is being held at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Searchicas, where the editor who opened the investigation has presented their evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to investigations, and then feel free to offer your own evidence or to submit comments that you wish to be considered by the Wikipedia administrator who decides the result of the investigation. If you have been using multiple accounts (in a manner contrary to Wikipedia policy), please go to the investigation page and verify that now. Leniency is usually shown to those who promise not to do so again, or who did so unwittingly, but the abuse of multiple accounts is taken very seriously by the Wikipedia community.

Fiddle Faddle 07:30, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020

Hello Searchicas. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to OneOTT Intertainment, 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 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. 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:Searchicas. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Searchicas|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. With this edit you appear to have made a declaration of a commercial relationship with OneOTT Intertainment Fiddle Faddle 07:35, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Searchicas. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page OneOTT Intertainment, 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. Fiddle Faddle 07:37, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest. Article Ownership, potential Legal Threats

This message is replicated from this edit

First, you have declared a conflict of interest in this matter. Second your declaration suggests that you are employed by or paid by OneOTT Intertainment. Third, this is not your article. See WP:OWN, Fourth, use of the term my legal team implies a legal threat (0.9 probability). You need to read WP:LEGAL and consider your position with care.

You may not edit OneOTT Intertainment further unto you have made a declaration or paid editing, or declared that you are not paid by them. Fiddle Faddle 07:52, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020

Your recent edits to User talk:CommanderWaterford could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle 08:09, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at OneOTT Intertainment, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Jerod Lycett (talk) 08:29, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to OneOTT Intertainment, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, 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:Searchicas, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Searchicas|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Your edits make it clear you have some form of relationship with OneOTT Intertainment. You must disclose this or you may be blocked from editing. Jack Frost (talk) 08:33, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have an undisclosed financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future. GeneralNotability (talk) 20:36, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]