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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Centrinian Publishing

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Centrinian Publishing, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Block Message

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.

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Since a blocking template was not left and the user has questions I'm just going to leave this here Kb03 (talk) 14:40, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unblock Request

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Eldermagus (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Hello Wikimedia Foundation, I am kindly putting in a request to unblock my account so that I may continue to makes contributions in compliance with the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use. I understand the reason my account was blocked and the reason my article was deleted, which I agree with and take full responsibility for making the rookie mistake of not reading the policy prior to creating my first article. I understand that my article violated the Terms of Use as it was created as a form of advertisement to promote my company, which, after having read the Terms of Use and the paid editing disclosure requirements, I understand and accept is a violation of the policy. Being one of the owner's of the company I created an article about is a form of financial conflict of interest as I have a close financial relationship with the company, which places a conflict between my company's goals and Wikipedia's goals. Bein unaware of the Terms of Use, I failed to disclose my paid editing to Wikipedia and inadvertently used Wikipedia for public relations and marketing purposes. In hindsight, I can see that it was a spam article and the decision to delete the article was most certainly the right decision to make. I understand and accept that the Wikimedia Foundation is not to be used for advertising and paid editing of articles to promote companies, products, and services is banned. I had been misinformed about the types of content that could be created on Wikipedia, however, I take full responsibility for misusing the site. I do not regard my ignorance as an excuse for violating Wikipedia's Terms of Use, and I assure you this mistake will never happen again as it was never my intention to misuse the site. I have read the Terms of Use and will continue to read further guidelines so that I am well versed in the conduct accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation. I am kindly asking you to give me a second chance. I will not make the same mistake twice, and I assure you I will not create any form of articles for the purpose of advertisement or marketing purposes or anything regarding any projects I am affiliated with. I will stick with encyclopedic topics in future. Please unblock my account so that I may utilise the full features of the Wikimedia Foundation and contribute and use the services according to the policies, as should have been the case from the get-go. Thanks for allowing me to put my appeal forward. Eldermagus (talk) 16:05, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Accept reason:

With the consent of the blocking administrator, I will remove the block. 331dot (talk) 07:29, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would like an idea of what topics you might edit about if unblocked. 331dot (talk) 20:37, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Orangemike, do you have any comment? 331dot (talk) 00:42, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm willing to assume good faith here. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:58, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@331dot: @Orangemike: You have my word this was a one time mistake, which will not be repeated. Thank you! Eldermagus (talk) 02:03, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@331dot: Thank you very much for approving my unblock request. I greatly appreciate the chance to contribute to Wikipedia, and as promised, I have studied the guidelines and will abide by the policies. Thanks again. Eldermagus (talk) 10:16, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Request to Unblock Account Response

Hello,

Thanks for getting back to me. To answer your question, I think I will stick to my area of interest, which is history articles, British colonial history mostly, but I will likely branch out to Colonial America also, most likely the 13 British Colonies.

Thanks.

@331dot:

Eldermagus (talk) 21:01, 27 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just to note, the Foundation only operates the computers Wikipedia is on, and is not typically involved in day to day operations. Editors handle most matters but we don't represent the Foundation. 331dot (talk) 00:44, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]