User talk:Tgpco
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Hello Tgpco. 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 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:Tgpco. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Tgpco|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. --VVikingTalkEdits 14:26, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
- I was trying to update hopelessly outdated information regarding the company. Your edits to remove "promotional copy" are fine with me. Many of the brands that were previously listed as part of the company's portfolio are non-existent and have been for several years. I was not attempting to break any rules, just trying to keep the information relatively current. Tgpco (talk) 19:00, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
May 2022[edit]
You may request a change of username and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must:
- Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
- Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.
{{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 17:11, 25 May 2022 (UTC)- /* May 2022 */
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I was trying to provide more current information regarding the company, as the information provided on the page had been posted in 2006, more than 15 years ago. For example, the company was listed as the 3rd largest privately held company in Illinois, when in fact, as of last year, it was 6th according to Crain's Chicago business. Many of the brands listed as belonging to the company are also no longer in existence. I wasn't attempting to break any rules, just trying to keep information relatively current. I was unaware of the "promotional copy" rule. That was my mistake. In future, I will limit any further updates to strictly editorial in nature. Maintaining hopelessly out of date information serves no purpose for anyone. Tgpco (talk) 19:27, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
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You have not proposed a new username as instructed. Please understand that the main purpose of Wikipedia is to summarize what independent reliable sources say. Please read WP:COI and WP:PAID and tell us how your future edits will be consistent with those policies, as well as tell about any other topics you might edit about as a general contributor. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 19:49, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
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