Cintos

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Licks-rocks (talk) 17:31, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

Welcome to wikipedia! the above is our Conflict of interest template. Your comments at Talk:Carolina Bays indicate to me that this message may well be applicable to you. Other than that, I bid you welcome to wikipedia, we have several features that may help make your journey easier. Let me know if you're interested in those, because I figured one template at a time is enough information to take in ^_^ --Licks-rocks (talk) 17:36, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

I will add that your username violates Wikipedia:Username policy. Organizations are not permitted to have accounts on Wikipedia. If you are associated with that organization, you should also refrain from editing articles directly when you have a conflict of interest. Propose changes on talk pages instead. ~Anachronist (talk) 02:52, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

March 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, club, organization, company, or website, I have blocked this account from editing. You are welcome to continue editing after you have chosen a new username that complies with Wikipedia's username policy.

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Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 03:28, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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

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Request reason:

I have personally used the nom de plume of “cintos” since first acquiring the domain name cintos.org back in the 1990’s. I indeed am an individual, Michael E. Davias, and I get paid by Social Security these days, having retired 7 years ago. The work of “cintos” is my personal opinion and mine alone, being unfettered from political or corporate pressures. My twitter name is iCintos, my google user name is miCintos, and my user account at Bank of America is Cintos7474. My user name on the AlfaBB (car website) is “Cintos” and has been for two decades. My Apple ID is cintos@me.com and has been for 25 years. I own the domain name cintos.org, cintos.com and cintos.net and use them for creating my personal websites. If you search for “cintos” on any web search engine you will wind up with belts (cinto is Spanish for belt), but I extracted it from Apple’s MaCINTOSh. Many folks would love to have a personal nom de plume that is only six characters and those six characters are not entangled with any corporate or national state, nor is it considered a swear word. By the way, my last name “DAVIAS” is also six characters and I am just about the only male in the world with it - and its on my birth certificate, US Passport and Social Security card (can I be DAVIAS on Wikipedia, or do you forbid six character names). Finally, this entire episode is driven by the caustic approach that the Carolina bay page editor, Paul H, has taken to his fiefdom there. You would think he was protecting Global Climate Change. My recent post in talk there was to inquire as to why he had taken down the links to two USGS Special Paper Volume chapters authored by myself and my research partner. I did not put them there, but “Paul H.” took them out and made no note in Talk of the activity nor why he had taken down 2 chapters (a total of 51 pages with color AND in a fully peer reviewed GSA GeoScienceWorld publication. Among the positive reviewers was Dr. Walter Alvarez and Karl Wegmann (2022 chair of the GSA Geomorphology Section). Paul H's comment on talk as of today is that he has not found any literature substantiating the theory. Guess that’s why Walter Alvarez is sensitive to our plight - they laughed at him in 1980, too. I have NO intent in debating the merits of my hypothesis with Dr. Heinrich on Wikipedia, just thought someone might like to know about it

Decline reason:

You lost me with the long defense of your username, and the discussion below kind of seals the deal. — Daniel Case (talk) 05:08, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

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Cintos (talk) 04:37, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

The very first sentence of your website https://www.cintos.org says "Cintos Research is an independent organization of individuals...." It may be your nom de plume, but it is also the name of an organization, which you seem to represent. Please elaborate. ~Anachronist (talk) 04:47, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

To answer your question: Yes, you can use your name as a new username. That being said, be mindful of WP:OUTING going forward. You will not mention another editor's (possible) full name publicly without their consent going forward. Ever. If you want to report a possible conflict of interest from another editor, there are other venues for that. You can find those venues by carefully examining our conflict of interest policy. Which you'll need to do anyway, since you certainly have one. Doxxing people is a serious violation of our harassment policies and can lead to a very quick and permanent ban, up to and including having your access to your own talk page and user pages revoked. So uh, don't. --Licks-rocks (talk) 11:08, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

BTW, I attempted to create a new persona as “Davias”, and I was told that it is too similar to another name . I suggest that is just a ploy to keep simple names out of the mix. When I search for "User talk: Davias”, I get no direct hit, but charmingly “User talk:Cintos” shows up...

The page "User talk:Davias" does not exist. You can request that it be created, or you may create the page "User talk:Davias" directly, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.

Please advise Cintos (talk) 14:42, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

@Anachronist I'm not very familiar with the process of changing account names, so I'm tagging you here😅 --Licks-rocks (talk) 14:55, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

@Licks-rocks: One can request a change of username at WP:CHU/Simple.

@Orangemike: Based on the discussion here (and explanation below), I believe the reason for this block is no longer valid. There are other behavioral considerations that may warrant a block, but I believe the username is no longer a concern. ~Anachronist (talk) 18:18, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Cintos is still the name of Davias' website, so falls under our ban. --Orange Mike | Talk 19:32, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the pleasure of receiving your prompt reply. Allow me to elaborate on my use of “Cintos": I’ve fixed the website. Cintos will continue to be my personal nom de plume. Back in 2005 I foolishly thought this research would quickly gain traction and there would be a real team of folks beside myself and my sister working on it. Ha. There is no “organization”, no non-profit, no LLC, and my sister has lost interest in contributing. It's just in my mind, as in “me, myself and I”. Should Wikipedia chose to block Cintos, that will be respected by me.

I will abide by your organization's restrictions on Original Content and desist from calling out the name of an editor (I did not know there were a protected class). In his 8-page peer review of the Chapter 23 paper, Walter Alvarez stated he dos not like anonymous peer review. He received many slaps for his K-PG impact work that were anonymous but none the less effective in hobbling his work. The GSA Volume that the two papers appear in was executed to honor Warren B. Hamilton. Dr. Hamilton had insightful ideas back in the day about the banished “Continental Mobility" that were squashed by conflicts of interest. Read the introduction - its free: https://doi.org/10.1130/2022.2553(001) It starts with a quote: "New interpretations can be viable only if many experts are wrong.” According to the mantra of Paul H, the future will never enjoy a new interpretation or advancement of stalled research because “many experts” can not be wrong.

Geological Research by Cintos is licensed under under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Based on a work at Cintos.org. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://cintos.org/about.html. Cintos (talk) 13:19, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

So basically, youre an amateur geologist with no formal education in the field pushing a fringe theory that is accepted by almost no one in the professional field of geology?

Thats not going to fly here, fyi. 71.233.63.157 (talk) 17:17, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

No worries, I have no intention of debating the hypothesis here on Wikipedia. The audience for my efforts are the scientists who have failed for half a century to find the impact crater for the 778ka event, and those sedimentary geologist in the US who recognize we have vast surficial deposits of unprovenanced regolith. As for credentials, Kuhn agrees that innovation always come from a lateral direction. I assume you have no interest in reading the 50 page of GSA Special Papers. Cintos (talk) 04:31, 1 April 2023 (UTC)