Andrew 1008

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is against the username policy.

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• Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
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Kuru (talk) 12:30, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Unblock request

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Andrew 1008 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Requested username:

Andrew 1008 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Dear Kuru, my apologies for violating Wikipedia rules and I understand the reason for a block and will not repeat the promotional edits in the future. I don’t receive any compensation for my contributions here. If I’m unblocked, I will do my best to use my knowledge and make a contribution to all Wikipedia users by adding some references and images, checking facts, expanding some existing articles and creating new articles

Accept reason:

Allowing username change to requested username. Please select an option from Wikipedia:Changing username and file a request as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. As below, please avoid your clear COI. Kuru (talk) 17:39, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

• Kuru What is the reason for a hard block? I don't see any contributions by this user. 331dot (talk) 14:23, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
  • 331dot Spam blacklist log. Several attempts add kickstarter links while creating an article for his company, combined with the username. Kuru (talk) 14:30, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
• To this user, if you are an employee of LaMetric, you are a paid editor, you do not have to be specifically paid for your edits. What topics do you want to edit about? (note, I will be away for a few hours if someone else wishes to act on this, that's fine with me). 331dot (talk) 14:33, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

I would like to edit the topics related to the smart home and consumer electronics industry since I’m quite knowledgeable in this field LaMetric (talk) 14:48, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Just to be clear; you will not make any further edits related to your products or services, direct or indirect, correct? Kuru (talk) 15:18, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that’s correct. LaMetric (talk) 16:19, 10 December 2020 (UTC)