Sue.Allen

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Marketing.Bizagi. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 11:20, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

June 2023

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Bizagi. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 14:25, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

February 2024

Hello Marketing.Bizagi. 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are 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 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:Marketing.Bizagi. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Marketing.Bizagi|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) 12:54, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Adakiko. I noticed that in this edit to Bizagi, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 11:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi, the information contained is no longer correct or appropriate. The article representing our company is out-of-date, and contains unnecessary warnings from 2015 which have a negative effect and are commercially damaging to the reputation of our company. Please help me update this page in accordance with your policies so that the page no longer causes problems. Because I cannot edit the page freely, I would much prefer that the page is shorter so that there is less chance of it being out of date or incorrect. Marketing.Bizagi (talk) 11:44, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

My account is now blocked - I am simply trying to make the wikipedia page factually correct - which it is not. Please advise me how to proceed. Marketing.Bizagi (talk) 11:50, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing because your account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. Also, your username gives the impression that the account represents a business, organisation, group, or web site, which is against the username policy.

If you intend to make useful contributions instead of promoting your business or organization, you may request unblock and a username change. In your reasons, you must:

• Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the paid-contribution disclosure requirement; and
• 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; and
• Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked; and
• Provide a new username.

To do this, 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 your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked.

Please note that the new username you choose cannot already be taken and in use by another account. You can go here to search and see if the username you'd like to choose is available. If the search returns that no global account with that username exists, that means it is available to be taken.

Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks, you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:49, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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

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Requested username:

Sue.Allen (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Hi HJ Mitchell. I understand that I have failed to adhere to the guidelines and would like to be unblocked. I have now declared that I am an employee of the company, and my only wish is to ensure that the page is factually correct and to achieve the removal of warnings at the top of the page from 2015 - by any process your policies require. The page currently contains outdated and incorrect information that has been causing commercial confusion. Since the original content was written a lot has changed in our market and product and my changes aim to reflect that. I am happy to avoid 'marketing' or 'advertising' statements and have done my best to do so in the edits I have been trying to make. Can I please also request a username change to S Allen. Marketing.Bizagi (talk) 11:57, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I will remove the block as discussed below. Please ask if you have questions. 331dot (talk) 13:58, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I have had a look. I have a question please. I see it says that you are strongly advised against editing articles affected by any conflict of interest. Does this mean that it is against the policy to do so and will get me banned? If I can only request changes then that's fine, but the wording is not clear to me if that is an absolute rule or not. I feel I can make a valuable contribution to the accuracy of the article without introducing marketing messaging so if I can do that then I will, but if its an absolute rule then I will simply add suggestions on the talk page. Please advise. Thanks! Marketing.Bizagi (talk) 10:02, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

In most cases you should avoid directly editing the article about your company; certain exceptions are listed here, such as removing unambiguous vandalism(which isn't just inaccurate content) or making other completely uncontroversial changes(like fixing grammar or punctuation). Instead you may propose edits as formal edit requests(click for instructions) so other editors can see and act on them. Please understand that the article will not necessarily say what your company might prefer that it say- we have broader considerations, such as providing a historical overview, and our main purpose is to summarize independent reliable sources. Do you understand these things? 331dot (talk) 10:14, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for that clear response it is what I needed to know. I do understand exactly what you are saying. Please understand that from a company perspective the page needs to be accurate on certain items because Wikipedia being as prominent as it is in search means that inaccurate information can cause commercial damage to us if it is not. However, I am 100% willing to avoid editing the article directly unless it is one of your examples. The changes that are required right now won't fit those requirements so if you remove my ban I will simply propose edits on the talk page instead for other editors to review. In addition, I will aim to propose edits that retain a historical context of the company whilst also providing up-to-date information. Thanks Marketing.Bizagi (talk) 09:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

I also suggested a new username of Sue.Allen if that is required in order to meet your username policy. Thanks Marketing.Bizagi (talk) 09:47, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

• HJ Mitchell As the user has committed to using the talk page to make edit requests, I'm wondering if you have any further objection to unblocking. Thanks in advance. 331dot (talk) 10:15, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

  @331dot no objections here once the username issue is taken care of. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:01, 1 March 2024 (UTC)