Hello Quodprod. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to COVID-19 vaccine card, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
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:Quodprod. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Quodprod|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.
MrOllie (
talk) 14:35, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's
mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the
Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at
User:Quodprod, and the template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Quodprod|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}
. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia.
MrOllie (
talk) 16:07, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie ( talk) 18:29, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Quodprod ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 154.160.2.144. I am using an MTN internet service (former name: "Scancom"). MTN is by far the largest internet service provider in our region. If you are blocking everyone using MTN as their service provider by default then you are excluding millions of contributors to Wikipedia from Africa, which would be extremely discriminatory and completely at variance with the open and progressive values of Wikipedia. Thank you. Quodprod ( talk) 16:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
Decline reason:
I can't speak for whoever made the block on the IP, and since it involves networking expertise that I don't have I am not in a position to do it myself. But... you or anyone else so blocked can easily go to WP:IPECPROXY, follow the directions there, and request IPBE which makes these blocks irrelevant. — Daniel Case ( talk) 06:35, 30 May 2022 (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.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.
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. Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos 16:04, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS, 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. PRAXIDICAE💕 16:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS (African Union), 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. PRAXIDICAE💕 18:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS, 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. MrOllie ( talk) 01:01, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
You have been using plural pronouns from this account. Please note that multiple people using an account is against policy, as linked in this section header. If you are not sharing this account please explicitly state so below. If you are sharing the account, please stop doing so immediately. Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos 01:20, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
The purpose of draft space is to ensure that new editors' work is reviewed by more experienced editors before being moved into the encyclopedia. Never move a draft you have created into article space until it's passed a review. Deb ( talk) 02:45, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Quodprod!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Theroadislong (
talk) 08:55, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
|
Since May 18, you have been repeatedly creating and re-creating the promotional article
PanaBIOS under different names (
User:PanaBIOS,
AU-PanaBIOS,
PanaBIOS (African Union), etc). I'm surprised you have not yet been blocked for these attempts to get round our rules against promotional content and advertising. Now I have blocked you indefinitely. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the
guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{
unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. I notice it took over a week and many repeated questions to get a straight reply from you about any connection you may have to PanaBIOS. Finally you denied any connection, and specifically denied being a paid editor. I don't believe you. The whole situation, including your persistent recreations and your evasiveness when asked, makes you overwhelmingly look like an
undisclosed paid editor.
Bishonen |
tålk 16:02, 12 June 2022 (UTC).
Hello, Quodprod. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:PanaBIOS, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot ( talk) 01:01, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Quodprod. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " PanaBIOS".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 00:13, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
Hello Quodprod. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to COVID-19 vaccine card, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.
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:Quodprod. The template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Quodprod|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.
MrOllie (
talk) 14:35, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's
mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the
Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at
User:Quodprod, and the template {{
Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Quodprod|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}
. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia.
MrOllie (
talk) 16:07, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie ( talk) 18:29, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Quodprod ( block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser ( log))
Request reason:
Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 154.160.2.144. I am using an MTN internet service (former name: "Scancom"). MTN is by far the largest internet service provider in our region. If you are blocking everyone using MTN as their service provider by default then you are excluding millions of contributors to Wikipedia from Africa, which would be extremely discriminatory and completely at variance with the open and progressive values of Wikipedia. Thank you. Quodprod ( talk) 16:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
Decline reason:
I can't speak for whoever made the block on the IP, and since it involves networking expertise that I don't have I am not in a position to do it myself. But... you or anyone else so blocked can easily go to WP:IPECPROXY, follow the directions there, and request IPBE which makes these blocks irrelevant. — Daniel Case ( talk) 06:35, 30 May 2022 (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.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.
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. Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos 16:04, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS, 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. PRAXIDICAE💕 16:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS (African Union), 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. PRAXIDICAE💕 18:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS, 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. MrOllie ( talk) 01:01, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
You have been using plural pronouns from this account. Please note that multiple people using an account is against policy, as linked in this section header. If you are not sharing this account please explicitly state so below. If you are sharing the account, please stop doing so immediately. Happy Editing-- IAm Chaos 01:20, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
The purpose of draft space is to ensure that new editors' work is reviewed by more experienced editors before being moved into the encyclopedia. Never move a draft you have created into article space until it's passed a review. Deb ( talk) 02:45, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Quodprod!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the
Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the
Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
Theroadislong (
talk) 08:55, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
|
Since May 18, you have been repeatedly creating and re-creating the promotional article
PanaBIOS under different names (
User:PanaBIOS,
AU-PanaBIOS,
PanaBIOS (African Union), etc). I'm surprised you have not yet been blocked for these attempts to get round our rules against promotional content and advertising. Now I have blocked you indefinitely. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the
guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{
unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. I notice it took over a week and many repeated questions to get a straight reply from you about any connection you may have to PanaBIOS. Finally you denied any connection, and specifically denied being a paid editor. I don't believe you. The whole situation, including your persistent recreations and your evasiveness when asked, makes you overwhelmingly look like an
undisclosed paid editor.
Bishonen |
tålk 16:02, 12 June 2022 (UTC).
Hello, Quodprod. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:PanaBIOS, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot ( talk) 01:01, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello, Quodprod. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, " PanaBIOS".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 00:13, 15 December 2022 (UTC)