User talk:AeconCorporateAffairs

Conflict of interest

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "AeconCorporateAffairs", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you personally, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87".

Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing this form, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:00, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello AeconCorporateAffairs. Your edits look as if you are being paid. Paid promotion is an especially egregious type of conflict of interest (COI).
Paid articles should be submitted through the articles for creation process. If you are receiving or expect to receive money for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post the disclosure on your user page at User:AeconCorporateAffairs. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AeconCorporateAffairs|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. If you are being paid, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:00, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

November 2017

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:

• Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Yunshui ^雲_水 16:32, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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Requested username:

Mark @ Aecon Corporate Affairs (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Wish to disclose paid editing to ensure information added to existing page is consistent and accurate.

Decline reason:

As below, I believe if we unblocked, you would continue writing about your company, violating COI, NPOV, Copyright, etc. SQL^{Query me!} 23:44, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

"consistent and accurate" (not a formal decline, just advice)

Hello, we all strive for consistency and accuracy, but you need to know that we rely on reliable sources unconnected with subjects rather than personal knowledge from those employed by subjects. There are restrictions with paid editing in that "paid editors, are very strongly discouraged from directly editing affected articles, but should post content proposals on the talk pages of existing articles, and should put new articles through the articles for creation process, so they can be reviewed prior to being published." Also, it is sad if your only purpose here is editing for your employer. We appreciate help building the encyclopedia. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 20:15, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Mark, with all due respect, I think you either (a) haven't read what's been put to you above, or (b) aren't getting it. Wikipedia is NOT a place for you to promote your company, and we use a neutral tone to describe subjects on this encyclopedia. If you put out an advertisement on television for your company, having it say your company is a "leader and partner-of-choice", that it "provides integrated turnkey services", and that it is a "leader in the construction and infrastructure development industry" would be entirely appropriate. Those are the words you chose to put into the article [1]. It reads like advertising because that is precisely what it is. It comes directly from your website . Which, of course, makes this a problem itself. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. We can not accept material copied and pasted from a website on the Internet without explicit release from the copyright holder of the material. But, we wouldn't accept it anyway as it is so non-neutral and advertising like. We can't allow such material to go into the article. Given your direct conflict of interest and therefore bias (whether intentional or not), it is highly unlikely we would accept edits to the article from you. The best you would be able to do is to make recommendations to the article's talk page and let a non conflict of interest editor decide what to do. The article about your company here is not the property of your company, and you do not get to control what content it has. I hope this clarifies things. If not, please ask questions and we'll be happy to help. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:02, 22 November 2017 (UTC)