User talk:Mark Sedenquist

Hello, Mark Sedenquist. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:17, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:27, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Your username is Mark Sedenquist and Mark Sedenquist is the publisher of imbrifex. The same thing you are repeatedly promoting in the Megan Edwards. You really need to stop and read some of the links above about your conflict of interest before you continue editing. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:27, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

i had to leave for a meeting

Not avoiding responding. I will be back in the office in the morning and will see what needs to be done. Yes, I am the publisher of IMBRIFEX BOOKS -- I don't use for advertising, but I have been updating pages with new books for those authors who have Wikipedia pages. All citations are neutral & independent.

You are avoiding responding. I have asked you directly three times how many accounts you have been using and are you using the CharlesSquid account. You have evaded every single time with non-answers like this one. You have been adding URLs to Imbrifex to articles which is advertising. You are editing the article of your spouse who you publish using multiple accounts and you are claiming what you are doing is neutral and independent. You have repeatedly violated every single guidelines at WP:COI something you were made aware of back in 2017 when your Imbrifex account was blocked. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 12:23, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I didn't remember having an Imbrifex account. So, I read all of the COI pages, and acknowledge the COI, and was going to use the edit COI template & the Request Edits template to add the missing books, but I can't find the "New Section" tab. In any case, there are new published reviews from major sites like Booklist and Publishers Weekly for the books published in 2022. I am happy to do this correctly, if that is still possible. I really didn't know that updating author pages with new books was considered to be advertising or promotion. Mark Sedenquist (talk) 18:49, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:28, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

I am correcting a typo. Some of Megan's books were missing and I added new citations for the reviews for the book published in 2022. I have maintained this page since it was first loaded. (I didn't do the original entry--if you look at the history -- I have merely undated the page with current info.) Mark Sedenquist (talk) 23:33, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Since this account made its first edit yesterday, how many accounts are you using? Are you also CharlesSquid? ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:35, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for promotion or advertising. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:30, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

OK, well maybe you can update the page with the current info then? Mark Sedenquist (talk) 23:36, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

“A Coin for the Ferryman: A Novel”, March 2022 Mark Sedenquist (talk) 23:36, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

You can propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles as suggested in the COI notice above. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:37, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

You also removed the Silver Pen Award -- https://library.unr.edu/nevada-writers-hall-of-fame Mark Sedenquist (talk) 23:38, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

You are avoiding answering the question I asked earlier. Since this account made its first edit yesterday, how many accounts are you using? Are you also CharlesSquid? ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

And you removed the citations for reviews published in 2022. Mark Sedenquist (talk) 23:39, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Please answer the question. How many accounts are you using to promote Imbrifex Books? ThaddeusSholto (talk) 23:44, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Not using any accounts to promote Imbrifex Books -- just reporting on books published. CharlesSquid was an account I opened in 2019. All edits since then have been on the username Mark Sedenquist. 184.182.85.164 (talk) 13:18, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

You are again evading. Point blank: How many accounts have you been using to edit Wikipedia? ThaddeusSholto (talk) 14:05, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I have two accounts -- CharlesSquid was started in 2019, (I don't remember if it has been used in recent years) and Mark Sedenquist is what I have been using to update the various author accounts and other pages where I have factual information to provide -- Americana attraction pages that had inaccuracies from years ago. We have been contributing monthly to the Wiki foundation for years, maybe it time to suspend that contribution. 184.182.85.164 (talk) 17:00, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

You have been editing with more than just those two accounts. At least two IPs have edited this talk page along with 174.72.194.245 on Megan Edwards‎.

Michaeld42 and Hbrennah have been promoting your publishing company, authors, and your immediate family members too. Threatening to stop contributions unless you are allowed to self-promote is an attempt at blackmail. How much you have or have not contributed doesn't give you special editing permissions. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 17:18, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I don't recognize 174.72.194.245 and I am not sure who Hbrennah is. But sure, I will not do any more editing on any wiki pages. The only accounts I have ever used to edit are the ones I listed above. 184.182.85.164 (talk) 17:50, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Hbrennah claims to be paid by Imbrifex Books to edit Wikipedia. If you don't know who Hbrennah is, how did you manage (as CharlesSquid) to edit Brett Riley (writer) the day after Hbrennah created it? Both the IP you are using right now and 174.72.194.245 come from the exact same postal code. I feel like you are providing information only when you are caught red handed and only the information you are positive I already know. ThaddeusSholto (talk) 17:59, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Hbrennah, oh that's right -- she worked, for a short time, for Imbrifex Books in 2019. I still don't know who is affiliated with 174.72.194.245. But, in any case, we won't be editing/correcting typos on any pages from this point on. Again, the only accounts that I have ever used to edit pages are the ones previously listed. 184.182.85.164 (talk) 18:20, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023

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