FRED BATT

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, FRED BATT. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Fred Batt, 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. Theroadislong (talk) 22:40, 7 November 2020 (UTC)

November 2020

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, FRED BATT, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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Appeals: If, after reading the guide to appealing blocks you believe you were blocked in error, then you may appeal this block by adding {{unblock|Your reason here}} below this notice. Nick Moyes (talk) 00:16, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello Fred. Just out of courtesy, I wanted to follow up by ensuring that your saw my more personal explanation of why I was going to place this block. You have done nothing wrong - it is purely for the protection of the real person - who is probably your good self, but we have no way of knowing. Please see my reply to your question at the Teahouse (here). Nick Moyes (talk) 11:38, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

@Nick Moyes: Hi, FYI, I've unblocked this user per request by Martin Urbanec and OTRS ticket ticket:2020110810010095. Best, KevinL (aka L235 · t · c) 20:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, L235. That's perfect, and my apologies to the real Fred Batt for the inconvenience I may have caused them, but I hope they will appreciate this was done purely to protect their interests (from what could have been - but wasn't - an imposter account). I fully these are accept these are one and the same people. Thank you, Fred, for your patience and kind regards to both editors, Nick Moyes (talk) 20:38, 20 November 2020 (UTC)