User talk:Cabotcoop

In response to your feedback

SwisterTwister talk 19:47, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Cabot Creamery, which 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.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
The five pillars of Wikipedia
Contributing to Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Simplified Manual of Style

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! -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:07, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your username

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Cabotcoop", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because usernames which represent the name of a company, etc. are not allowed per WP:CORPNAME. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:10, 6 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Cabot Creamery logo

Please follow the instructions given at c:User talk:Cabotcoop so that your claim of copyright ownership of this logo can be properly verified. Wikimedia Commons needs to have some formal way of verifying the c:COM:CONSENT of the copyright holder before it can host the file. I also strongly suggest you carefully read c:COM:L and make sure you fully understand what it means for you to upload Cabot Creamery's logo to Commons under a Creative Commons license. Creative Commons and Wikimedia Commons have similar names, but they're not otherwise related. The latter only accepts content that can be freely reused by anyone anywhere in the world at anytime for any purpose (including commercial and derivative reuses); so, by uploading the logo to Wikipedia Commons as you did, you're basically telling the world it's OK for anyone to reuse the logo without needing to ask for separate permission. If Cabot Creamery wants to do that, then great; however, formal verification of that intention is required because there's no going back once copyright holder consent has been given. If you just thought uploading the logo would somehow mean it could only be used on Wikipedia in the way you want it to be used, then you're mistaken and I suggest you ask Cabot Creamery's intellectual property rights people about what you're trying to do to make sure it's really something the company wants you to do. — Marchjuly (talk) 19:44, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Undisclosed paid-contributions

Hello Cabotcoop. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Cabot Creamery, 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:Cabotcoop. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cabotcoop|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. -- Marchjuly (talk) 20:24, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

March 2023

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because of the following problems: 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, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, 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 your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must:

Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
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.
Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Orange Mike | Talk 23:37, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]