DogeofLA

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Securitize

Suggestion: article writing should start with the sources--not with, in this case, promotional text and a press release. Find the reliable, independent, secondary sources first, and then write the text based on that. And whenever editors see something like "Securitize is a financial technology firm that empowers businesses to compliantly raise capital", eyebrows will go up--not because of the somewhat sophomoric thing where an adverb is placed before the verb (that's yearbook language), but because of that "empowers", which is a buzzword of course, of the most promotional kind. You wouldn't want editors to think you're an undeclared paid editor who never disclosed their conflict of interest. Drmies (talk) 20:42, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, DogeofLA. 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 or competitors;
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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. Drmies (talk) 20:43, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

So, it's pretty clear to me that you made edits to Alex Villanueva not out of some desire to improve our coverage, and that shitposting on Jim McDonnell (sheriff) was related to that. Same with MusclePharm, and this was a giveaway for a few reasons. So I am going to block you indefinitely; if you wish to place an unblock request, you will have to convince the next admin that you will declare any COI you might have, that you will stick to making edit requests on the talk page, that you will not log in to make positive edits about one subject and then log out to make negative edits about that subject's former political opponent...am I forgetting anything? Drmies (talk) 21:05, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

June 2021

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a 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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• Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
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Drmies (talk) 21:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)