User talk:Dnrivers
December 2021
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Hello, I'm Isabelle Belato. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Robert J. McCann seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Isabelle 🔔 16:07, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
I've left you a message
- I've left you a message at my talk page. Also be warned that you are engaged in an edit war, which can lead to sanctions. I recommend you self-revert and discuss your changes in the talk page of Robert J. McCann. Isabelle 🔔 16:14, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
December 2021
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Hello Dnrivers. The nature of your edits, such as the ones you made to Commons:File:Bob-Whitened.jpg and Robert J. McCann, 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:Dnrivers. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Dnrivers|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. InvalidOStalk 13:46, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
@InvalidOS I am not being paid to do this. This is a favor for my friend since 1998, Kea Capel, who is the partner of Robert McCann. Their only goal is to update the article accurately and without bias, but they do not know how to edit Wikipedia so I offered to do it for them. I am working with @Isabelle Belato to do this fairly, with no bias or conflict of interest.
Dnrivers (talk) 16:11, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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 a 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.
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Unblock
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Dnrivers (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
I have read the Terms of service. I am not being compensated for these edits, this is a favor for a friend, as stated above in my talk page. I am working with the wikipedia moderator community to make these edits strictly updates to the subject's life since this article was previously written, with as little bias as possible.Dnrivers (talk) 14:19, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Even if I believe you that you aren't paid, you will need to describe how your future edits will be consistent with the conflict of interest policy, and tell about any topics unrelated to your COI you might edit about. 331dot (talk) 15:33, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
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Blocked for sockpuppetry
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:25, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Unblock
[edit]Dnrivers (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
RE: RoySmith (talk) I have had no goals but to update the article to be timely and current, and I want to do so with the guidance of Wikipedia moderators. The article subject has two new leadership positions since this article was written, that should be reflected. I am not here to use flowery language or promote the person, I just want to make the article up-to-date with his new positions and I fail to see why that's a problem considering I have been nothing but cooperative with moderators and have agreed to every change the mod community suggested. Dnrivers (talk) 14:57, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Decline reason:
This does not address your violations of WP:SOCK or WP:UPE. Yamla (talk) 10:05, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
Unblock
Re: RoySmith (talk) I am not being paid to write this, I am a friend of Bob McCann. I did create an alternate account to implement my edits because the review process has not been fair or transparent with me. There have been recent updates to the article subject's professional career and that should be reflected here, it's irresponsible to not do so. Dnrivers (talk) 16:19, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
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