Rentonrc

May 2020

Hello Rentonrc. 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Rentonrc. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Rentonrc|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. 331dot (talk) 00:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Honestly do not know how to reply to your message. Hope this is the correct method. No, I am not being compensated. Just a favor.

You are responding correctly. I am not allowed to reveal off-wiki information about you, but I have difficulty believing that based on what I know. Can you at least understand why that might be? 331dot (talk) 00:45, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

I am not sure what I need to do to convince you that I am not being compensated. I am good friends with Todd La Torre (who is cited in the page). Craig Blackwell is his childhood best friend. He was unaware how to create the page, so I told him I would try and create it.Rentonrc (talk) 00:51, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

At an absolute minimum, you have a conflict of interest you need to declare. Again, can you at least understand why I might think that you are being compensated? I think your relationship here is more than just friendship. 331dot (talk) 01:00, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

There is no conflict of interest or compensation. Do you need something in writing from either Todd or Craig. Todd was trying to do it as a surprise for Craig so we would love to keep him out of the loop.

An article on Wikipedia is not a reward or form of recognition for someone. Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage state about subjects that meet Wikipedia's special definition of notability, in this case, the definition of a notable musician. Whether you tell the subject or not is up to you- but permission is not the issue and there is nowhere to send something in writing to. You state you are friends with the subject or those associated with him. That is a conflict of interest, please read our policy(click those words). I will give you one more chance to be more forthcoming about your relationship and why I might think that you are being compensated. 331dot (talk) 01:09, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

I have passed your messages to the artist. I don't want to be a blocker to the page being activated. Was only posting for them, was not author.

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have an undisclosed financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

• Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
• State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
• Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future. 331dot (talk) 01:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

To any reviewing administrator: I will provide the basis of my beliefs to you privately upon request. 331dot (talk) 01:26, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Likely sock or meat puppetry with User:Lbmhi007. 331dot (talk) 15:01, 11 May 2020 (UTC)