Dimmmkko

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Hello, Dimmmkko, 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

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• The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ian.thomson (talk) 11:00, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

You need to disclose your employment on your userpage

Hello Dimmmkko. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Infopulse Ukraine, 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:Dimmmkko. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Dimmmkko|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. Ian.thomson (talk) 11:00, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

--I am not directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I don't work for this company and contribute to this article in my own free time. Dimmmkko talk 14:00, 04 October 2019 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 14:18, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Dimmmkko. You should read the relevant policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. The safest way to avoid a conflict of interest issue is avoiding editing the affected articles directly. You can use the talk page of the relevant article to request specific changes and other users will review and apply them for you. You can use the {{Edit request}} template to mark your request. Note that most financial relationaships are considered a conflict of interest, even if not paid directly to edit Wikipedia. Best, --MarioGom (talk) 14:27, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

--Hi MarioGom. As I stated previously, I'm not affiliated with said company. Neither I'm paid by this company, directly or indirectly for my contributions. The article was a complete mess and abandoned before I picked it back back in 2016, as my company and this started working together on mobile development project for a non-profit organization. Having made contributions to it among other wiki contributors, I was only interested in making it more encyclopedic and neutral, cutting down promotional content, etc. I don't have much free time as of lately, and since March 2019, this article is in a dire need of making it even more neutral, or adding some other info. I may need help from other wiki contributors here. As suggested by wiki admins, I may abstain from editing it further. What surprised me, is that the warning from wiki admin came to me after I reported an abuser, who was spamming {npov} tags everywhere. --Dimmmkko (talk) 14:25, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

...and now I'm blocked out of the blue. Nice, very nice. --Dimmmkko (talk) 14:37, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

As I stated previously, I'm not affiliated with said company. That's a lie. Ian.thomson (talk) 14:39, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

You claim it's a lie, I reiterate once again. I work for A DIFFERENT company as a project manager for a MOBILE APPLICATION. Our companies do work together on this project, however it's a CHARITY PROJECT. I'm not interested in promoting this company. I was only interested in making this article better. See my user profile on reddit - https://www.reddit.com/user/Dimmmkko/ - do I promote the company there? --Dimmmkko (talk) 14:45, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Dimmmkko: I would suggest to first read carefully the relevant policy (WP:COI). Once you understand what constitutes a conflict of interest in Wikipedia and what are the appropriate ways to request edits, you may appeal the block. Note that admins will probably reject the appeal if you have not familiarized yourself with the conflict of interest policy and voice your intention to follow the guidelines. --MarioGom (talk) 14:51, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

MarioGom: I've checked the COI policy and probably see what you mean. So, since sometimes our companies work together on the same project, I may have a COI in this case, although I'm not being directly influenced or paid by anyone on their side to write or maintain this article. Can I at least put suggestions to edits on the article talk page, while abstaining from direct editing? I do feel responsible for it, since I made quite an effort to make it better. --Dimmmkko (talk) 15:04, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

I've already emailed the evidence that you're lying to WP:ARBCOM (which, per WP:OUTING, I can't post here but you can), and they agree with the block. The only way I could see getting unblocked at this point is if you stop lying, admit who you really work for, and vow to never edit any articles relating to your employer or their affiliates and competitors. Maybe another admin might unblock you if you vow to never edit any articles relating to IT companies without admitting who you really work for but as I see it:

• Without admitting who you really work for (bearing in mind that we already know who you work for), we know we can't trust you in general.
• Given how much it's taken to get you to admit to your COI (and how you still truly haven't), we can't trust you to handle those articles.

Ian.thomson (talk) 15:15, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for violating our terms of service with undisclosed paid editing, refusing to properly disclose your employment and lying about it.

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 ~~~~}}.  Ian.thomson (talk) 14:33, 4 October 2019 (UTC)