User talk:Benjamin James

Draft:Lark Quartet concern[edit]

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:40, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited 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.

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September 2016[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

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You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:23, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your username matches this site, which gives off the impression that you work with marketing. You've only edited via AfC, which is why I'm only giving you a soft block, but you will need to disclose your COI and also be careful about tone and copyright, since the draft used material previously published elsewhere. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 05:25, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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

Requested username:

Benjamin James (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Conflict of interest is not apparent Hemisdigital (talk) 02:44, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Newname is fine, so I've renamed and unblocked your account. If you have any connection with Hemisdigital and you write about anything related to Hemisdigital, you should note your connection on your userpage as per WP:COI. Buy if you have no connection and don't write anything related, you should be fine. Welcome back. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 07:56, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note - if your marketing company was hired or you were otherwise asked to create a page for someone or something, you must disclose this on the article's talk page, no matter how minor the edit may seem. I'm stating this because you previously created a draft article for the Lark Quartet, which had issues with copyrighted content and also had some pretty promotional tones. It just seems very, very unlikely that you do not have a conflict of interest in this situation. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 20:19, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]