User talk:Essex PR

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Hello, Essex PR, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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April 2019[edit]

Hello Essex PR. 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 egregious 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, and if it does not, 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:Essex PR. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Essex PR|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. DlohCier ekim 14:25, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia with this username. This is because your username, Essex PR, appears to be a role account.

You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username by:

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If you think that you were blocked in error, you may appeal this block by adding {{unblock|Your reason here}} below this notice, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. DlohCier ekim 14:26, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Dlohcierekim,

Just because the username mentions PR does not reflect that my contribution is paid. The conflict of interest arises because we are Communications team at the University of Essex, UK, and the subject in the contribution is affiliated to our university. If you could help us to improve the contirbution then that would be amazing. As for the reason to unblock my account is as follows.

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).

Essex PR (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

My contribution is not because of payment made or in exchange of any paid services. Our contirbution is to reflect the ongoing work at the University of Essex, Uk, which is gaining a lot of media exposure.

Decline reason:

You forgot to pick a new username. Note also that I doubt your claim you receive no salary for your employment at the University of Essex. Even if true, it's not relevant. You have a clear conflict of interest. If your only goal is to write about the University of Essex, you won't be unblocked. If you wish to write about other subject areas, areas for which you do not have a conflict of interest, please follow the instructions above. Yamla (talk) 15:40, 24 April 2019 (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.

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Essex PR (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Requested username:

EssexToday (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Decline reason:

That username is equally unacceptable. Please review the username policy. You must change your username to reflect this account is used by a specific individual(your own name is not required). If you wish, a name formatted as "JohnDoe of EssexU" would be acceptable. You also did not address the reason for your block or tell what you want to edit as you won't be allowed to edit about your University. Feel free to show this message to your boss or superiors. You will only be unblocked if you agree to not edit about your university or anything related to your conflict of interest and tell what you will edit about instead as a general, individual Wikipedia contributor. If you are not prepared to do that, you will not be unblocked. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@331dot and Dlohcierekim: Hello Dlohcierekim & 331dot,

My initial attempt of another account was not to abuse Wikipedia nor an attempt to sock-puppetry. That is a misunderstanding from my part. I am new to Wikipedia and was not aware of how to use the platform completely before starting out. The initial block on my account mentioned, "You are encouraged to choose a new account name that meets our policy guidelines and create the account yourself. Alternatively, if you have already made edits and you wish to keep your existing contributions under a new name, then you may request a change in username". In the block message when I clicked on the link for "create the account yourself", which is hyperlinked, it prompted me to create another account and I went ahead and asked my colleague to create one so that I do not attempt a sock-puppetry abuse. I was not aware at first that I have to request for a new username by using a tag ({{unblock-un|your new username here}}) instead of creating one (I realised that later). I hope this clears the confusion of having two accounts from the same department and once again would like to apologise if it seems otherwise since it is just my fault of not knowing of how to use the platform properly. Anyhow, since our original goal was to create pages related to our university department and since that is also not allowed on Wikipedia, so we would like to retract our accounts from the platform. Thank you for your cooperation in this regard.

With regards, Essex PR (talk) 09:51, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you meant to make an unblock request, so I've blocked that formatting. There is no means to delete accounts; simply abandon your account. 331dot (talk) 12:27, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@331dot: Hello 331dot,

Ok. Thank you for the update. I will stop using the account. And hope our previous contributions on the platform won't be penalized because of our actions due to our lack of knowledge on the platform.

With regards, Essex PR (talk) 12:35, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Somdip Dey (April 26)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dreamy Jazz was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Somdip Dey and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Somdip Dey, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 22:20, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Essex PR! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 22:20, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Block evasion[edit]

This user has continued their block evasion, including in June, 2019. --Yamla (talk) 18:46, 2 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]