User talk:Comefrombeyond

July 2017

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on IOTA (Distributed Ledger Technology). Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made.
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. TimothyJosephWood 14:15, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. TimothyJosephWood 14:19, 6 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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IOTA (Distributed Ledger Technology)

Hello Comefrombeyond. If you have a real-life connection to IOTA, or are well-known on the internet by participating in discussions of IOTA elsewhere, it might be to your advantage to be frank about your role. (You don't need to reveal your name or any identifying information). Depending on what admin looks at it, the exchange at Talk:IOTA (Distributed Ledger Technology) risks being deleted or suppressed per concerns about outing and those involved are risking a block. The same advice applies to the other party. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 15:04, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

July 2017

Do not add personal information about other contributors to Wikipedia. Wikipedia operates on the principle that every contributor has the right to remain completely anonymous. Posting personal information about a user is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's harassment policy. Wikipedia policy on this issue is strictly enforced and your edits have been reverted and/or suppressed, not least because such information can appear on web searches. Wikipedia's privacy policy is to protect the privacy of every user, including you. Persistently adding personal information about other contributors may result in you being blocked from editing. Katie^talk 14:08, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Continued edit warring at IOTA (cryptocurrency)

You are continuing a dispute that was already reported at the edit warring noticeboard a few days ago, and led to protection of the article. The next time you make a revert you may be blocked, unless you have got prior consensus on the talk page for your change. EdJohnston (talk) 15:42, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Page move reverted

I had moved IOTA (Distributed Ledger Technology) to IOTA (cryptocurrency), with reasons given in the edit summary. You have reverted that move, so I have opened a WP:Requested moves discussion of the matter. I invite you to share your thoughts on the matter at Talk:IOTA (Distributed Ledger Technology)#Requested move 11 July 2017. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 20:34, 11 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to IOTA (cryptocurrency), without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 22:40, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. David Gerard (talk) 16:37, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Comefrombeyond. I work on conflict of interest and advocacy issues in Wikipedia along with my regular editing. Your edits are entirely about Iota and are promotional. I don't know if you are aware, but we have had so much promotional editing across cryptocurrency articles by people in the online communities that have formed around these currencies, that we have added "holding a cryptocurrency" to the COI guideline, as something that creates a conflict of interest here in Wikipedia with regard to that cryptocurrency and others. Folks in those communities, and who hold them, have come to WP in the hopes of promoting them. In case you do have a COI with respect to this currency, I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Comefrombeyond. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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 must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. Unmanaged conflicts of interest can also lead to people behaving in ways that violate our behavioral policies and cause disruption in the normal editing process. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you want to be involved in articles where you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by our WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with the Iota community, and if you hold this currency? After you respond (and you can just reply below), if it is relevant I can walk you through how the "peer review" part happens. Please reply here, just below, to keep the discussion in one place. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 17:21, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As you have not responded here I have heightened the request for disclosure below. Jytdog (talk) 21:50, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. Thank you. Jytdog (talk) 17:30, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing?

Your behavior is the product of raw advocacy or paid editing. I am giving you the notice below in case it is the latter.

Hello Comefrombeyond. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, 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:Comefrombeyond. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Comefrombeyond|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. Jytdog (talk) 21:49, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not being paid for that. If you pay attention to the version you are enforcing you will notice that it looks like an attempt to hype IOTA, my version is more about the technical details. Comefrombeyond (talk) 21:55, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ANI

Your behavior is appalling.

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Jytdog (talk) 22:11, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to IOTA (cryptocurrency)— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 22:28, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

Hello, I'm AllyGebies. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to IOTA (cryptocurrency) have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. AllyGebies talk 22:48, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. You will be blocked if you continue to edit war. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 22:49, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection.

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 ~~~~}}.

I see that you were warned about edit warring in July, 2017, and are now engaged in aggressive edit warring against several other editors. Your behavior is completely unacceptable. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 22:56, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Shameless hyping is completely unacceptable too. I understand that you didn't have time to compare the both version and preferred the shortest path (just compared the number of people in the each group), but still I'm upset by your behavior. Comefrombeyond (talk) 23:04, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have no interest whatsoever in the content dispute. My concern is your behavior. Edit warring is not allowed even if you are completely correct on the content issue. You were warned, you persisted, and now you are blocked. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 23:12, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Got it, thanks for spending time on explaining. Comefrombeyond (talk) 23:18, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]