User talk:Supermann/Archives/2017/June

Declaration of Socketpuppetry/COI/Paid Editing

I have come out in person to community members incl. but not limited to DGG at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC in May. I am not a ferocious writer with a lot of publicly available articles though. Over the past 10 years, I have been contributing to the community in a very small scale primarily related to the movies which I have watched. Given my immigrant background, my username is apparently inspired by Kryptonian immigrant Superman and my first edit is related to the movie Superman Returns. How time flies. In 2014, I set up a separate account supermansaga with the initial intent to edit on non-English Wikipedia pages, but it has become a sleeper account.

Because of my personal journey, I have a thing for military-themed movies and subjects. That is why I fixed List of US arms sales to Taiwan to ensure President Obama's legacy over a two-day period in Feb 2016 with some crazy hours. Regrettably, neither the president nor his Dept of Defense paid me for my efforts.

A year later, because I was grateful for movie production and distribution company Bliss Media's efforts to bring pacifist war film Hacksaw Ridge to China, I decided to edit or create pages related to their existing and upcoming projects, incl. but not limited to S.M.A.R.T. Chase, Bliss Media, Wei Han, Thomas Price (actor) from Feb thru Mar 2017. To consolidate all such efforts and go around the photo uploading rules of using high definition pictures, I ridiculously set up yet another account BlissMedia/Shxiyi without understanding the gravity of Wikipedia:Sock puppetry rules. Nor did I fully understand the impact of Bliss Media and Wei Han pages having been previously deleted years ago because of an advertising nature. I did reach out to the company to encourage them to release the rights of high-def pictures, but I presume they never acted on my suggestion. Anyways, I am the sole person behind all three accounts of supermann, supermansaga, Blissmedia/shxiyi. That's why at certain points supermann shared IP addresses with shxiyi after that account was blocked. There are no so-called coworkers there conspiring with me to spam Wikipedia in 2017. DGG has concluded that what I had created for Bliss Media the page is quite different from an earlier version. The tones and wordings of my unblock appeal requests have been consistent. I was indeed physically in China traveling to visit family and relatives and friends, but had to use proxy most of the time to circumvent the the Great Firewall of China. For example, NYTimes is blocked. Looking back, I wish I had simply and only used my main account supermann to edit all those pages. While I was writing under the BlissMedia/shxiyi account, I did claim to be an agent of Thomas Price, because I was thinking from the perspective of the company, but as I have repeatedly written multiple times: I don't have any contractual relationship with the company that has clouded my judgment or enriched my pockets. I only care about whatever should and could be written about them. I have no interest in further promoting it other than convincing others that those pages should not be deleted due to notability.

To sum up, I am indeed guilty of socketpuppetry and evading blocks in the heat of passionately defending my edits/creation. I am willing to put this chapter behind me by taking up the generous offer from Yamla. That is to say I will "agree to refrain from directly editing any article at all related to Bliss Media, broadly construed. You could suggest edits on the articles' talk pages, so long as you disclose your conflict of interest. And of course, no more sockpuppetry." And DGG will watch over me, too. However, I wish the deleted pages of Bliss Media, Wei Han, Thomas Price (actor) could be restored and have any puffery removed. I also wish there was an expiration to the stringent requirement of staying away from those pages. If there are people actively editing them without spamming, I could definitely stay away. But last time I checked, people undoing changes on S.M.A.R.T. Chase are not maintaining it well and left dead links. For example, for people complaining there is little about this movie, they did not notice Orlando Bloom appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on the same night of Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC in May to talk about it.

Thank you so much to those policing in the community who have made me a better contributor down the road. I do believe this is a necessary lesson.

As I am the original blocking admin on this particular account, I have now lifted your block under these terms. You are free to request removal of the restriction around directly editing anything to do with Bliss Media, broadly construed, in six months (i.e. in December, 2017) and any admin may lift these editing restrictions without consulting me, so long as they have verified you've made no edits to any such articles, broadly construed. You are free to suggest edits at any time, on these articles' talk pages, but must otherwise stay away from that topic area. You are under no restriction from articles completely unrelated to Bliss Media. I do not wish to trap you here. You need to stay away from Orlando Bloom, just to use one example, as that is part of your editing restriction. That's a topic related to Bliss Media. You already know this; your previous edits were specifically to discuss the relation with Bliss Media projects, there. --Yamla (talk) 11:38, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

Understood. And thank you for clarifying the expiration on direct edits. Looking forward to the unblock and restoration of those deleted pages.Supermann (talk) 14:48, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

June 2017

Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors, which you did not do on User talk:TropicAces. [1] bonadea contributions talk 08:52, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Noted and responded on the Template talk:Infobox_film. Btw, would it take three more days for my talk page to start automatically archiving? I think I have added the necessary text. thanks. Supermann (talk) 15:50, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

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