User talk:VevoWikiUpdates
January 2023
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Hello VevoWikiUpdates. 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:VevoWikiUpdates. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=VevoWikiUpdates|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. 331dot (talk) 13:34, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hello, thanks for reaching out. No, of course I’m not being compensated. Who would pay somebody to update a Wikipedia page? I’m just a huge vevo fan. VevoWikiUpdates (talk) 01:15, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
- Your username makes it sound like you are an official Vevo representative or employee who has been tasked with updating articles(not "pages") related to Vevo. Since you aren't, I would suggest that you change your username to something like "VevoFan". 331dot (talk) 02:49, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
- We see paid editors or attempts to do it all the time, which is why we have a policy on it, per the Terms of Use. 331dot (talk) 02:50, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
March 2024
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If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must:
- Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
- 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; and
- Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
- Provide a new username.
To do this, 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.
Please note that the new username you choose cannot already be taken and in use by another account. You can go here to search and see if the username you'd like to choose is available. If the search returns that no global account with that username exists, that means it is available to be taken.
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