Bromanel

October 2019

Hello Bromanel. 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:Bromanel. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bromanel|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. creffett (talk) 01:29, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Per your suggestion I am writing to indicate, respectfully, that you are indeed mistaken and I am not being compensated by Julie McQueen in any way. This is my first attempt at publishing on wikipedia and clearly I screwed it up in some way, given the speedy reaction from you you and three other editors, on of who has blocked me from editing wikipedia entirely. I do know Julie and offered to develop this page for her as a courtesy - nothing more. In drafting this article I modeled it exactly like the article on Melissa Bachman in the hopes I would be giving Wikipedia content in exactly the manner it preferred.

Please be assured again that I am not being compensated - and if I can improve o the article in some way so it is more in keeping with what Wikipedia expects I am happy to do so. I would also be happy to defer to wikipedia's editors to develop the article themselves if that is preferred.

Thank you for your attention and please advise,

Best -

Bill Romanelli Bromanel (talk) 21:37, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Julie (Jules) McQueen

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Julie (Jules) McQueen, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. creffett (talk) 01:30, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello -I need to protest the fact that my article was deleted and that I am being blocked from editing. I am in no way being compensated by Julie McQueen for posting her article; and in fact I modeled it after another article that has been published on Melissa Bachmann in the hopes that doing so would demonstrate that this is legitimate. I will certify in any way you like that I am not being compensated. Please remove my block and allow me to make edits & respond to other editors who have posed this same question. I would be happy to defer to Wikipedia's editors to develop the article if that is desired.

Thank you -

Bill Romanelli Bromanel (talk) 21:23, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Hello, Bromanel. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Julie (Jules) McQueen, 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 or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} 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 WP:Spam);
• 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. Thank you. – Athaenara ✉ 03:12, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

– Athaenara ✉ 03:12, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

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).

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

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Request reason:

Hello - I'm appealing my block notice. I have just tried publishing my very first article on Wikipedia -on Julie McQueen. Several editors have posted concerned that I am being compensated for this article - I will certify adamantly that I am not being compensated in any way. I do know Julie and I offered to develop this page for her. I modeled this article after a similar page that has been published on Melissa Bachman, in the hopes that by doing so I would be provided content wikipedia would find useful and approve quickly. Being new at this, I may have overlooked some steps in publishing & if so I'm willing to fix those, but by being blocked my options are quite limited. MoreoveI would be happy to work with wikipedia'as editors and even defer development of Julie article to wikipedia entirely. I will look forward to your response and/or guidance. Thank you, Bill Romanelli Bromanel (talk) 21:30, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Now that you know about WP:COI, how would you edit differently if unblocked? Yamla (talk) 12:08, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

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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.

I would recommend starting off by reading Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Writing_about_yourself,_family,_friends. It's best not to directly edit articles where you are connected to the subject. If you weren't to edit about Julie, what sort of articles would you edit? SQL^{Query me!} 03:01, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I would most likely stick to article on hobbys and interests - comic books, sci-fi and historical fiction (primarily the civil war)Bromanel (talk) 21:30, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

So am I still blocked or can the block be lifted?

Your appeal will be considered when you have answered SQL's question. The block appeal queue is also backlogged at the moment, so it may also take a week for us volunteer admins to make a decision. MER-C 14:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

I would most likely stick to article on hobbys and interests - comic books, sci-fi and historical fiction (primarily the civil war)Bromanel (talk) 20:57, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Requesting Unblock

I have responded to the question above as requested and am asking, again, to be please be unblocked. This whole thing has been based on a simple misunderstanding - on my part - and I have been extraordinarily forthcoming and acting in good faith to resolve this. I would appreciate a quick response. Bromanel (talk) 19:23, 10 August 2020 (UTC)