User talk:Sofia.Messer

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Happy editing! 220 of ^Borg 18:52, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

June 2020[edit]

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June 2020[edit]

Countries English varieties[edit]

Hi,
Regarding your edit to West Don Lands, as seen here, just so you know, we avoid changing the speeling of pages that have an established national variety of English. As you might expect, a page about Canada generally uses Canadian spelling; UK pages, British spelling; USA pages, American spelling.

Please see WP:ENGVAR for more info. Regards, 220 of ^Borg 19:13, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Editing with a possible paid conflict of interest[edit]

Hello Sofia.Messer. The nature of your edits 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 SEO.

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:Sofia.Messer. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sofia.Messer|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. SamHolt6 (talk) 03:27, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello SamHolt6, I have a Conflict of Interest (COI) because I have a personal affiliation with Gotransverse. I recently became aware of the COI disclosure requirement. I respect that the community strictly enforces notability eligibility and COI. I will no longer edit the Gotransverse Wikipedia article unless given permission to do so. How can I be helpful in providing URLS of third-party media articles or perhaps have your help to revert the article to its published status? Understanding that COI editing is discouraged on Wikipedia, am I able to create a stub page for Gotransverse to remove these violations? Input and suggestions are welcome. Sofia.messer (talk) 16:39, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. MER-C 09:31, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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).

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

Request reason:

I have a Conflict of Interest (COI) because I have a personal affiliation with Gotransverse. I recently became aware of the COI disclosure requirement. I also unknowingly violated Wikipedia's rules on Advertisement. I respect that the community strictly enforces notability eligibility and COI. I will no longer edit the Gotransverse Wikipedia article unless given permission to do so. I intend to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia if unblocked and will not violate these terms again.

Decline reason:

I am declining your unblock request because it does not address the reason for your block, or because it is inadequate for other reasons. To be unblocked, you must convince the reviewing administrator(s) that

the block is not necessary to prevent damage or disruption to Wikipedia, or
the block is no longer necessary because you
1. understand what you have been blocked for,
2. will not continue to cause damage or disruption, and
3. will make useful contributions instead.

Please read the guide to appealing blocks for more information. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:26, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

What topics will you edit about if unblocked? 331dot (talk) 23:59, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am interested in editing and creating Wikipedia pages regarding monetization and other areas around Finetech. How can I be helpful in providing URLS of third-party media articles or perhaps have your help to revert the Gotransverse article to its published status? Understanding that COI editing is discouraged on Wikipedia, am I able to create a stub page for Gotransverse to remove these violations? Input and suggestions are welcome.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sofia.Messer (talk • contribs) 19:43, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

What is Finetech and why do you want to write about it? Vanjagenije (talk) 11:48, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Gotransverse[edit]

Hello, Sofia.Messer. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Gotransverse".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:51, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]