User talk:TimberTrail

November 2017[edit]

Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one or more of your recent contributions to Timber Trail because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Shellwood (talk) 23:02, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Timber Trail. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Marianna251TALK 23:10, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, TimberTrail. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must 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 WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies.

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Marianna251TALK 23:11, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

November 2017[edit]

Hello TimberTrail. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:TimberTrail. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TimberTrail|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 03:07, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the disclosure. You are definitely wp:paid. Please read that carefully. Please do not ad content that is not reliably sourced. Alas, you need to rename. You need a username that reflects you as a person, not the trails and not a job title. Please see WP:username for more info about that. Special:GlobalRenameRequest is the place. For reason, just reference this discussion. Do hurry, before someone lays on a username block. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 12:48, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. GoldenRing (talk) 13:51, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Let me make this clear, GoldenRing blocked you ONLY because your user name is the same as the organization you work for. It has nothing to do with your edits. In this case, I think the name is generic enough however, GoldenRing was simply following policy strictly and his actions were reasonable. You can follow the links above and they will make it fairly quick to change your name to something that isn't related to business. I do not think you were trying to promote your biz, but you can see how we have to limit names this way, as we do get a lot of people using a commercial business name as a user name. But again, it isn't related to your editing. Dennis Brown - 2¢ 13:07, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]