User talk:JamesJCClarke

September 2021[edit]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Thirty-nine Articles. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Kleuske (talk) 10:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, you may be blocked from editing. Kleuske (talk) 10:48, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello JamesJCClarke. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Gospel of Matthew, 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:JamesJCClarke. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=JamesJCClarke|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. MrOllie (talk) 12:04, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, JamesJCClarke. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kleuske (talk) 10:46, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding citations to your books[edit]

Please read the messages above. You need to declare if you have a conflict of interest. I and others are happy to help you figure out how to edit Wikipedia productively, but if you keep adding citations to what appears to be books you have published, and ignore these messages, you're likely to end up getting blocked, and your edits will be reverted. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:04, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

September 2021[edit]

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.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

Doug Weller talk 17:38, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Doug, I just realized that the person that was using this account before got the account blocked by going against Terms of Use, I was wondering if you would point me to a way to get someone to fix something on the page about our company on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lutterworth_Press the US distributor is out of date it should be ISD Distributor (https://www.isdistribution.com/Default.aspx), but since the person using the account before got it blocked I can't do that correction. Thank you for your time. JamesJCClarke (talk) 14:56, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

UTRS appeal #59803[edit]

is closed. Any user account should represent an individual and not a group (and an individual should normally only have one user account; see next section). Sharing an account – or the password to an account – with others is not permitted, and evidence of doing so will result in the user being required to stop the practice and ~~change their password,~~ (not an option as this is not the original account holder).or in sanctions (up to and including the account being blocked), depending on circumstances I think the circumstance dictate remaining blocked for WP:UPE and as a compromised account. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 12:10, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]