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Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, as you did at Swarajya (magazine). 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.
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Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I am aware of terms of paid editing and I am not getting paid of doing any Wikipedia editing. I have COI with the page though as I started internship at there just before 12 days. No one has directly or indirectly asked me to edit this page. There was discussion regarding this page [ [1]] in which several new users were doing edit war over fake news line in lead. I didn't directly edit affected page, instead I used [ page] for editing request and then after gaining consensus, I edited that page. I stopped editing page thereafter. Prior to 12 April, I didn't have any conflict of interest with the publication (though my articles were published there like my articles are getting published in other publications like Times of India, Ahmedabad Mirror, Navbharat Times, DailyO and many more but it was through general way of just mailing editor of the website). I didn't get any compensation from any of these publications for Wikipedia editing or writing for them till now. When Swarajya doxxed the Wikipedia editor, I mailed them to take those pieces down as they were not complying with Wikipedia's terms and policies; those pieces were taken down after. Hence, I always try to follow Wikipedia guidelines and larger aspects of Wikimedia movement. While editing, I thought that COI disclosure was not needed because I was using talk page already for editing request but I think, I could have mentioned COI while doing editing request. In the future, I will not directly edit this page and I will add userbox of COI on my userpage regarding this.
Decline reason:
There was an expectation of you to disclose your conflict, as is spelled out in WP:COI. Four days ago, you directly removed from Swarajya (magazine) the following sourced passage: "According to fact-checking websites such as Alt News, Swarajya has propagated fake news multiple times." You cited your reason as being "Per consensus on t/p." But looking at the talk page, the conversation was: a. only with one other editor. And b. that editor expressed their preference for modification of the passage ("I prefer the current wording with in-text attribution") rather than removal outright. This was in response to you writing: "I think word Alt News and other’s are reductant because they’ve been certified by IFCN. What say?" And you did all that with an undisclosed conflict of interest looming large? A few hours later, the other editor involved (Newslinger) re-added a modified version of the passage which you removed, a passage which remains in the lead presently. It now reads: "According to fact-checking websites such as Alt News, Swarajya has misreported news on multiple occasions." Did it not occur to you, at the very least, the optics of making such a favourable, direct edit to an entity with which you are connected? I'm sorry, but I am finding your current request to be insufficient at this time. El_C 15:27, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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I am not a big fan of using the term "fake news" in this way, since our articles on American/British publications don't do the same unless reliable sources explicitly describe it as such.Previously, line fake news was in lead and another editor clearly denied use of it. So, I thought it that they are in favour of removal of sentence and hence, I removed it. But after they objected it, I didn’t reinstate it and just stepped back because I had CoI. This discussion was not even direct, some new editors on another page brought issue of this publication and I shifted that discussion and my thoughts there. I am sorry that I didn’t disclose CoI at the time of making request, which I could have done. - Brihaspati (talk) 15:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
An internship is still considered to trigger the requirement to declare as a paid editor, even if you are not paid in cash money, as you are being compensated with the experience. You don't have to be specifically asked or directed to edit. What topics will you edit about henceforth? 331dot ( talk) 15:12, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I mention above, they wrote: "I prefer the current wording with in-text attribution." How do you explain this discrepancy?I want to say that last two comments (one by me and one by another editor) were after my edit. I thought I’m just doing internship without getting any money as of now. By looking at CoI, I considered to write on T/P as it said so. I didn’t know I should disclose coi there too. My primary reason not to disclose there was doxxing which I’m facing and perhaps, I mailed about it to you too. I’m associated with Wikimedia movement offline and I didn’t have any malicious intention to turn encyclopaedia into soapbox. — Brihaspati (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
As recommended by 331dot and El_C, I’m filing the unblock request again. I have not been aware that it was compulsory to disclose COI even on talk page. Having said that, I’ll disclose CoI on my userpage and will not edit page further.
Decline reason:
On 17 December 2019, you asked for your previous userpage, which contained a rather revealing link wrt to your internship at Swarajya (for the sake of your privacy I won't characterize the link further) to be speedy deleted. That could be seen as not merely not declaring your COI, but actually being furtive about it. Many of the diffs in Bradv's post above, where you warn eight different users about COI editing, were made shortly before and shortly after that speedy request. Combined with your statement "I have not been aware that it was compulsory to disclose COI even on talk page" in this unblock request, it sounds a lot like you think there's one rule for other editors, and another rule for you yourself. I agree with Bradv that this amounts to bad faith editing. See also El C's comments higher up on this page. Bishonen | tålk 20:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC) Adding: I should probably have supplied a link to the deleted userpage in Brihaspati's old name, even though there is already one in the block log: User:Harshil169. (Only readable by admins.) Bishonen | tålk 09:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC).
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Brihaspati, I'll let another admin handle the unblock-request but I do have a couple of questions:
Abecedare ( talk) 17:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
not aware that it’s compulsory, leaves me with no clear idea of what you mean by
I was not part of any publication before 12 dayswhile also saying
I was the one who emailed and explained Swarajya to take those pieces downsince the latter surely was more than 12 days ago.
Sorry Brihaspati, I am not buying your explanation about the failure to disclose the conflict of interest above. In the past few months you have warned numerous editors about their own conflicts of interest, e.g. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. In one of those cases, the COI warning you gave was for the exact same edit that you made to Swarajya (magazine). This is just bad faith editing, and I wouldn't be willing to even consider unblocking you without some sort of topic ban or restriction on what kind of edits you will make in the future. Given your affiliation with an organization that's willing to out Wikipedia editors in pursuit of political goals, that needs to start at the very least with a ban from Indian politics. – bradv 🍁 17:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Kindly disclose your affiliation with magazine. We have off-Wiki evidence."– bradv 🍁 18:23, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I brought up issue, another admin said they don’t have any issue and then I removed part.That old editor, whom I gave warning, removed part directly and I was not part of publication then. His username was assimilating with someone of publication and I opened this SPI. One new account was blocked at that time and this editor was blocked for 3 days. While my edit was being done after posting message and gaining consensus on T/P. Is that clear how these two are different?— Brihaspati (talk) 18:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Brihaspati, as Bishonen says, you cannot enforce a policy while at the same time allow yourself to remain ignorant about it. That simply fails to meet our expected standards for editing here, inexorably so. El_C 22:11, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
(Commenting as the blocking admin:) I'd like to find a way for you to get back to productive editing Brihaspati, but this situation isn't good. First things first you need to drop the excuses that you were not aware of the COI requirements or that you do not have a financial COI with regard to
Swarajya (magazine). As demonstrated above, neither is remotely plausible. As a minimum requirement to return to editing, you will need to
disclose your conflict of interest and fully comply with
WP:PAID. I know you wanted to avoid outing yourself, and that would have been fine if you didn't edit the article. But you did, so unfortunately that option is no longer available to you. Further, given this attempt to furtively edit the article without disclosing, and the problematic history of Swarajya and Wikipedia, I wouldn't be willing to unblock you unless you also agree a topic ban from Indian politics broadly construed, including articles relating to
Swarajya (magazine),
OpIndia, and connected publications
. This would mean you could not edit the articles, their talk pages, or make edit requests. We would of course also have to have the consensus of the other admins here. –
Joe (
talk) 13:35, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I reread all the policies and guidelines as well as all above discussions and questions. Following is my clarification. #My understanding of COI: I should have read WP:COI carefully. I should have understood that only paid editing does not mean COI but any remote affiliation or association too qualifies as a COI. I sincerely apologise for my poor interpretation of COI and sticking to the belief that I understood it. I had previously warned other editors about COI but it was in the view of paid editing. I will carefully reread all important policies so it does not happen again. #My association with Swarajya: I started an internship with Swarajya magazine on 12 April 2020. It is an unpaid short internship and I am not directed in any way to edit Wikipedia. I had no previous association with Swarajya. I write articles and email them to various magazines and such articles have been published on Swarajya’s website previously. But I was not paid or had any specific association with them then. I had no other communication with them then. I had emailed them about Wikipedia policies when they doxxed an editor so they took down their news pieces then. It was only for protecting Wikipedia editors and informing them about our policies. I had no other stake in that issue. So I want to clarify again that I had an association with Swarajya only after 12 April 2020. I have not COI previously. #As soon as I joined the internship, I should have declared COI on my userpage and should have not edited the Swarajya article in any way. But due to my poor interpretation, I failed to declare COI. I believe that it is not real COI because I was not paid in any way. When a discussion regarding consistency was carried out regarding a sentence in the article, the other editor, who is also an administrator, agreed to remove it so I removed it. When someone reinstated, I did not remove it. But now I understand that I should have also declared my COI there on talkpage and should have only used talkpage. Now I understand that I should not have edited that page in any way. Editor has removed the sources referred by me to maintain the consistency in all sources. #Indian politics is my primary area of interest. I have no malicious intent or political goal. I am here only to improve articles and have no other intention. If I am topic-banned from Indian politics, my area of interest will shrink significantly and I will not have much left to edit here. If you don’t trust my COI association declared here, I am also ready to reveal my personal identity and afficiations to ArbCom or any other relevant authority. #I will not edit Swarajya or any COI topic anyway now onwards. I can agree for topic ban on Indian media or media personalities for unblocking. I made a terrible mistake and I regret it. I apologise again and assure that it will not happen again as I have learned a lesson. I kindly request you to unblock me and please keep an eye on my edits as long as you want. Thank you,- Brihaspati (talk) 04:08, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Decline reason:
"I believe that it is not real COI because I was not paid in any way". Nope, you are wrong. And that destroys any chance of having your block lifted. In fact, you had a conflict of interest prior to your internship, the moment this happened: "such articles have been published on Swarajya’s website". Additionally, you clearly fit the definition of a paid editor at WP:PAID. This is directly addressed in WP:PAID. Frankly, this is the end of the line for you at this time. You've repeatedly refused to listen to what others are telling you. WP:IDHT applies. The only path forward I can see for you is to wait six months with zero edits, then apply under WP:SO. At that time, you'll need to demonstrate a clear acceptance that you violated WP:COI and WP:PAID. Specifically, you'll need to directly state that you were indeed a paid editor with a conflict of interest (even though you weren't receiving money to edit). Yamla ( talk) 11:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jagdish Lal Ahuja until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.
Sohom ( talk) 21:09, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
"Voila. Appealing after a break of 4 years. The points here are well-addressed and I agree with them. Henceforth, I will be disclosing my COI on my talk page and main page. Also, I agree with topic ban on Indian media as a whole as I have been associated with them. I have been editing Gujarati Wikipedia in this long break and I want to continue editing in English Wikipedia with translation of Gujarat-related pages.-- Brihaspati (talk) 11:11 am, Today (UTC+5.5)"
Decline reason:
Per Yamla's comment below. WP:SO applies only if you haven't been evading your block. Also, for the record and based on your past editing, any future unblocking should come with a topic ban for Indian media, religion, and politics related topics. RegentsPark ( comment) 13:24, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
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Confirmed
block evasion via
logged-out editing, last month. --
Yamla (
talk) 10:23, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Just to make it crystal clear, you cannot ask for the standard offer again. Doug Weller talk 15:40, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
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Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, as you did at Swarajya (magazine). 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 ~~~~}}
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your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:
Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I am aware of terms of paid editing and I am not getting paid of doing any Wikipedia editing. I have COI with the page though as I started internship at there just before 12 days. No one has directly or indirectly asked me to edit this page. There was discussion regarding this page [ [1]] in which several new users were doing edit war over fake news line in lead. I didn't directly edit affected page, instead I used [ page] for editing request and then after gaining consensus, I edited that page. I stopped editing page thereafter. Prior to 12 April, I didn't have any conflict of interest with the publication (though my articles were published there like my articles are getting published in other publications like Times of India, Ahmedabad Mirror, Navbharat Times, DailyO and many more but it was through general way of just mailing editor of the website). I didn't get any compensation from any of these publications for Wikipedia editing or writing for them till now. When Swarajya doxxed the Wikipedia editor, I mailed them to take those pieces down as they were not complying with Wikipedia's terms and policies; those pieces were taken down after. Hence, I always try to follow Wikipedia guidelines and larger aspects of Wikimedia movement. While editing, I thought that COI disclosure was not needed because I was using talk page already for editing request but I think, I could have mentioned COI while doing editing request. In the future, I will not directly edit this page and I will add userbox of COI on my userpage regarding this.
Decline reason:
There was an expectation of you to disclose your conflict, as is spelled out in WP:COI. Four days ago, you directly removed from Swarajya (magazine) the following sourced passage: "According to fact-checking websites such as Alt News, Swarajya has propagated fake news multiple times." You cited your reason as being "Per consensus on t/p." But looking at the talk page, the conversation was: a. only with one other editor. And b. that editor expressed their preference for modification of the passage ("I prefer the current wording with in-text attribution") rather than removal outright. This was in response to you writing: "I think word Alt News and other’s are reductant because they’ve been certified by IFCN. What say?" And you did all that with an undisclosed conflict of interest looming large? A few hours later, the other editor involved (Newslinger) re-added a modified version of the passage which you removed, a passage which remains in the lead presently. It now reads: "According to fact-checking websites such as Alt News, Swarajya has misreported news on multiple occasions." Did it not occur to you, at the very least, the optics of making such a favourable, direct edit to an entity with which you are connected? I'm sorry, but I am finding your current request to be insufficient at this time. El_C 15:27, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
I am not a big fan of using the term "fake news" in this way, since our articles on American/British publications don't do the same unless reliable sources explicitly describe it as such.Previously, line fake news was in lead and another editor clearly denied use of it. So, I thought it that they are in favour of removal of sentence and hence, I removed it. But after they objected it, I didn’t reinstate it and just stepped back because I had CoI. This discussion was not even direct, some new editors on another page brought issue of this publication and I shifted that discussion and my thoughts there. I am sorry that I didn’t disclose CoI at the time of making request, which I could have done. - Brihaspati (talk) 15:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
An internship is still considered to trigger the requirement to declare as a paid editor, even if you are not paid in cash money, as you are being compensated with the experience. You don't have to be specifically asked or directed to edit. What topics will you edit about henceforth? 331dot ( talk) 15:12, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I mention above, they wrote: "I prefer the current wording with in-text attribution." How do you explain this discrepancy?I want to say that last two comments (one by me and one by another editor) were after my edit. I thought I’m just doing internship without getting any money as of now. By looking at CoI, I considered to write on T/P as it said so. I didn’t know I should disclose coi there too. My primary reason not to disclose there was doxxing which I’m facing and perhaps, I mailed about it to you too. I’m associated with Wikimedia movement offline and I didn’t have any malicious intention to turn encyclopaedia into soapbox. — Brihaspati (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
As recommended by 331dot and El_C, I’m filing the unblock request again. I have not been aware that it was compulsory to disclose COI even on talk page. Having said that, I’ll disclose CoI on my userpage and will not edit page further.
Decline reason:
On 17 December 2019, you asked for your previous userpage, which contained a rather revealing link wrt to your internship at Swarajya (for the sake of your privacy I won't characterize the link further) to be speedy deleted. That could be seen as not merely not declaring your COI, but actually being furtive about it. Many of the diffs in Bradv's post above, where you warn eight different users about COI editing, were made shortly before and shortly after that speedy request. Combined with your statement "I have not been aware that it was compulsory to disclose COI even on talk page" in this unblock request, it sounds a lot like you think there's one rule for other editors, and another rule for you yourself. I agree with Bradv that this amounts to bad faith editing. See also El C's comments higher up on this page. Bishonen | tålk 20:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC) Adding: I should probably have supplied a link to the deleted userpage in Brihaspati's old name, even though there is already one in the block log: User:Harshil169. (Only readable by admins.) Bishonen | tålk 09:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC).
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Brihaspati, I'll let another admin handle the unblock-request but I do have a couple of questions:
Abecedare ( talk) 17:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
not aware that it’s compulsory, leaves me with no clear idea of what you mean by
I was not part of any publication before 12 dayswhile also saying
I was the one who emailed and explained Swarajya to take those pieces downsince the latter surely was more than 12 days ago.
Sorry Brihaspati, I am not buying your explanation about the failure to disclose the conflict of interest above. In the past few months you have warned numerous editors about their own conflicts of interest, e.g. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. In one of those cases, the COI warning you gave was for the exact same edit that you made to Swarajya (magazine). This is just bad faith editing, and I wouldn't be willing to even consider unblocking you without some sort of topic ban or restriction on what kind of edits you will make in the future. Given your affiliation with an organization that's willing to out Wikipedia editors in pursuit of political goals, that needs to start at the very least with a ban from Indian politics. – bradv 🍁 17:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Kindly disclose your affiliation with magazine. We have off-Wiki evidence."– bradv 🍁 18:23, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
I brought up issue, another admin said they don’t have any issue and then I removed part.That old editor, whom I gave warning, removed part directly and I was not part of publication then. His username was assimilating with someone of publication and I opened this SPI. One new account was blocked at that time and this editor was blocked for 3 days. While my edit was being done after posting message and gaining consensus on T/P. Is that clear how these two are different?— Brihaspati (talk) 18:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Brihaspati, as Bishonen says, you cannot enforce a policy while at the same time allow yourself to remain ignorant about it. That simply fails to meet our expected standards for editing here, inexorably so. El_C 22:11, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
(Commenting as the blocking admin:) I'd like to find a way for you to get back to productive editing Brihaspati, but this situation isn't good. First things first you need to drop the excuses that you were not aware of the COI requirements or that you do not have a financial COI with regard to
Swarajya (magazine). As demonstrated above, neither is remotely plausible. As a minimum requirement to return to editing, you will need to
disclose your conflict of interest and fully comply with
WP:PAID. I know you wanted to avoid outing yourself, and that would have been fine if you didn't edit the article. But you did, so unfortunately that option is no longer available to you. Further, given this attempt to furtively edit the article without disclosing, and the problematic history of Swarajya and Wikipedia, I wouldn't be willing to unblock you unless you also agree a topic ban from Indian politics broadly construed, including articles relating to
Swarajya (magazine),
OpIndia, and connected publications
. This would mean you could not edit the articles, their talk pages, or make edit requests. We would of course also have to have the consensus of the other admins here. –
Joe (
talk) 13:35, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
I reread all the policies and guidelines as well as all above discussions and questions. Following is my clarification. #My understanding of COI: I should have read WP:COI carefully. I should have understood that only paid editing does not mean COI but any remote affiliation or association too qualifies as a COI. I sincerely apologise for my poor interpretation of COI and sticking to the belief that I understood it. I had previously warned other editors about COI but it was in the view of paid editing. I will carefully reread all important policies so it does not happen again. #My association with Swarajya: I started an internship with Swarajya magazine on 12 April 2020. It is an unpaid short internship and I am not directed in any way to edit Wikipedia. I had no previous association with Swarajya. I write articles and email them to various magazines and such articles have been published on Swarajya’s website previously. But I was not paid or had any specific association with them then. I had no other communication with them then. I had emailed them about Wikipedia policies when they doxxed an editor so they took down their news pieces then. It was only for protecting Wikipedia editors and informing them about our policies. I had no other stake in that issue. So I want to clarify again that I had an association with Swarajya only after 12 April 2020. I have not COI previously. #As soon as I joined the internship, I should have declared COI on my userpage and should have not edited the Swarajya article in any way. But due to my poor interpretation, I failed to declare COI. I believe that it is not real COI because I was not paid in any way. When a discussion regarding consistency was carried out regarding a sentence in the article, the other editor, who is also an administrator, agreed to remove it so I removed it. When someone reinstated, I did not remove it. But now I understand that I should have also declared my COI there on talkpage and should have only used talkpage. Now I understand that I should not have edited that page in any way. Editor has removed the sources referred by me to maintain the consistency in all sources. #Indian politics is my primary area of interest. I have no malicious intent or political goal. I am here only to improve articles and have no other intention. If I am topic-banned from Indian politics, my area of interest will shrink significantly and I will not have much left to edit here. If you don’t trust my COI association declared here, I am also ready to reveal my personal identity and afficiations to ArbCom or any other relevant authority. #I will not edit Swarajya or any COI topic anyway now onwards. I can agree for topic ban on Indian media or media personalities for unblocking. I made a terrible mistake and I regret it. I apologise again and assure that it will not happen again as I have learned a lesson. I kindly request you to unblock me and please keep an eye on my edits as long as you want. Thank you,- Brihaspati (talk) 04:08, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Decline reason:
"I believe that it is not real COI because I was not paid in any way". Nope, you are wrong. And that destroys any chance of having your block lifted. In fact, you had a conflict of interest prior to your internship, the moment this happened: "such articles have been published on Swarajya’s website". Additionally, you clearly fit the definition of a paid editor at WP:PAID. This is directly addressed in WP:PAID. Frankly, this is the end of the line for you at this time. You've repeatedly refused to listen to what others are telling you. WP:IDHT applies. The only path forward I can see for you is to wait six months with zero edits, then apply under WP:SO. At that time, you'll need to demonstrate a clear acceptance that you violated WP:COI and WP:PAID. Specifically, you'll need to directly state that you were indeed a paid editor with a conflict of interest (even though you weren't receiving money to edit). Yamla ( talk) 11:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jagdish Lal Ahuja until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.
Sohom ( talk) 21:09, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
Brihaspati ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
"Voila. Appealing after a break of 4 years. The points here are well-addressed and I agree with them. Henceforth, I will be disclosing my COI on my talk page and main page. Also, I agree with topic ban on Indian media as a whole as I have been associated with them. I have been editing Gujarati Wikipedia in this long break and I want to continue editing in English Wikipedia with translation of Gujarat-related pages.-- Brihaspati (talk) 11:11 am, Today (UTC+5.5)"
Decline reason:
Per Yamla's comment below. WP:SO applies only if you haven't been evading your block. Also, for the record and based on your past editing, any future unblocking should come with a topic ban for Indian media, religion, and politics related topics. RegentsPark ( comment) 13:24, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{ unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Confirmed
block evasion via
logged-out editing, last month. --
Yamla (
talk) 10:23, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Just to make it crystal clear, you cannot ask for the standard offer again. Doug Weller talk 15:40, 14 June 2024 (UTC)