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April 2019

There have been two problems with this account: 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 also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing. Additionally, If you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for your contributions to Wikipedia, you must disclose who is paying you to edit.

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Since you keep removing notes from your talk page, I'll again link you to conflict of interest guidelines, reliable sources (i.e., not the company's own PR copy), and undisclosed paid editing policies. You clearly have a conflict of interest, and your entire history has been POV-pushing in support of non-practicing entities. ST47 (talk) 01:15, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

ST47 I responded to your accusation that I am being paid to make these edits. I said on your talk page that I am not being paid. Again, I am NOT being paid to make any edits nor was I ever paid to make any of the edits that I made to Wikipedia in the past. I am an engineer in the tech industry that understands patents and technology. There is a wide misconception in the media that companies are non-practicing entities when in fact they are not. Take a look at my history of edits, Rambus, was called a non-practicing entity in Wikipedia at one point, how ridiculous is that? I will be appealing your block as I feel that your block is unfair.

Just because someone writes facts that you do not like does not mean that they are not true or that the person is paid to write them. In the case of VirnetX the company produces actual software, take a look at the google play store.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.virnetx.gabriel.GabrielMobile Patent Facts (talk) 02:10, 11 April 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).

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Request reason:

OK; I took some time to review why ST47 blocked me, and now I understand the two reasons why I was blocked and it will never happen again in the future.

I understand reason #1

I realize now that I did not include a source from an independent third party to corroborate the information that I was including in the article about a company that I was writing about. I realize now that I only included information from the company's website, which is not good. I now understand why this was viewed as advertising or possibly having a conflict of interest.

In the future, when I am editing an article about a company or person, I will always include information that is from a third party independent source and not just information sourced from a company or person. In all of my 100+ edits on Wikipedia, I have always included source material from an independent third party, but in this instance where I was blocked, I did not include a third party source; I was wrong and I apologize.

For the article I was blocked on, VirnetX, I now found a third party source, the Google Play store, which shows that this company produces mobile software. I would appreciate being unblocked so that I can continue to contribute to Wikipedia in areas in which I have knowledge, technology, and patents.

I joined Wikipedia to provide facts in regards to patents and technology, my goal is to contribute to Wikipedia in this area and provide a neutral point of view. Because the term "patent troll" is highly subjective. When I first joined Wikipedia, some folks were expressing a subjective opinion in a Wikipedia article for Jay Walker saying that he was a "patent troll" Jay Walker is a world-renowned prolific inventor and founder of priceline.com.

For the record, I am NOT being paid by anyone to make the edits that I've made. I am contributing to Wikipedia in topics that I am very familiar with, which are patents and technology. My goal is to bring a neutral point of view to Wikipedia, you can see I've done that in articles in the past, one example is Rambus

I understand reason #2

I don't think my user name promotes anything, but if I have to change my username in order to continue to contribute to Wikipedia then so be it, I will change it. If my user name has to be changed, let's change it to PF2600 Patent Facts (talk) 02:10, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

You are obviously from some reputation management company. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:32, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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