User talk:Mdghty

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Hello, Vtdigger, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as VTDigger, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of VTDigger

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A tag has been placed on VTDigger, 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. --Dlohcierekim (talk) 22:06, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

April 2018

Hello Vtdigger. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Vtdigger. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Vtdigger|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Dlohcierekim (talk) 22:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:

Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. --Dlohcierekim (talk) 22:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

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

Requested username:

mdghty (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Thanks for alerting me to these noncompliances. I was hasty in creating this account and the "VTDigger" page. I understand that the username must identify me as an individual rather than the organization. I work for a nonprofit statewide news website. We are working to create a page to identify our site to users, and to comply with Facebook's new requirements that news publishers have background information visible on Wikipedia. I also hope to use this account to make contributions elsewhere on Wikipedia that will enhance the visibility of credible news organizations, journalists, and our professional organizations. If you release this block, I will edit this account to include the proper disclosures and work to bring the VTDigger page into compliance. Thanks for considering this request.

Decline reason:

You seem to still want to use Wikipedia to promote or publicize both your news outlet and the industry as a whole. Edits to Wikipedia must be for the goal of improving this encyclopedia and not outside promotional purposes. Facebook's requirements are not our concern; articles must meet our standards and requirements for the subject being covered in independent reliable sources that indicate in this case notability as an organziation. You will not be permitted to directly edit about VTDigger; there are indirect ways to do so if your organization meets the requirements, but your goals don't seem to mesh with Wikipedia's. As such, I am declining this request. 331dot (talk) 09:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have globally renamed this account from User:Vtdigger. Another admin will review the unblock. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:53, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]