User talk:ECSS-Wiki

October 2023

Hello, ECSS-Wiki. 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Furthermore, your username indicates that your account represents an organisation, but Wikipedia policy requires an account to be for one person acting in an individual capacity, so you should not continue to edit under your current username. I also see that the article about your organisation has been created and substantially edited by people apparently acting for that organisation, frequently in a promotional manner; that should not continue, as indicated by the guideline on conflict of interest. JBW (talk) 09:50, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

I see that since I wrote my message above you have posted a paid editing disclosure. Thank you for doing that. However, doing so does not exonerate you from the other requirements which I mentioned, including the conflict of interest guideline, the policy against promotional editing, and the policy against corporate accounts. Since you have continued to edit in violation of those requirements your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. If you are interested in contributing to the encyclopaedia in ways other than posting promotional material about your organisation, and are willing to have your account renamed to indicate that it is an individual one, you may request an unblock. To do so, first select a suitable username. A names such as "Marie at ECSS" would be acceptable, and would have the advantage of both indicating that the account is an individual one and also providing transparency about your connection to the organisation. Then read the guide to appealing blocks, and finally add the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} to the bottom of this talk page, replacing the words "Your proposed new username" and "Your reason here" as appropriate. JBW (talk) 13:35, 5 October 2023 (UTC)