User talk:Gearboxrecs

May 2020

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. Additionally, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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

Request reason:

I am not associated with Gearbox Records but made the page as a favour for a friend of mine who is - I hadn't made a page before so didn't realise that such a username would throw up an issue. I assume the advertising part is the part about the turntables, or at least the part with a review of the turntable in, I will delete that part if I am given editing permissions back

Decline reason:

Please follow the instructions in the block notice to make an unblock request that also proposes a new username. As you state that you are acting on behalf of someone associated with the company, you still have a conflict of interest. If your friend is compensating you in any way(the compensation does not have to be money), you would be a paid editor as well. Your edits were promotional because they merely told about Gearbox Records; Wikipedia articles must do more, they must summarize what independent reliable sources state about a subject. I doubt you will be unblocked to continue to violate the policies I describe here; if you want to edit about topics unrelated to Gearbox Records, please tell what they are. I am declining your request; if you make another, someone else will review it. 331dot (talk) 15:50, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Gearbox Records

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A tag has been placed on Gearbox Records, 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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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.

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

Requested username:

multistorey666 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

I did not and will not receive any form of payment for making the Gearbox Records page it was merely for something to do during downtime that I wished to try my hand at. If possible I would like to attempt to remake the page as I have no real attachment to Gearbox Records and do not care about it in any meaningful way, but if that is not allowed then I shall not attempt to, but would like a user to make changes to be able to edit other pages.

Decline reason:

This does not even mention your conflict of interest, nor does it tell us what you'd do differently if unblocked. Yamla (talk) 16:31, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]