Howzat out

June 2019

Hello Howzat out. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Howzat out. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Howzat out|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. GSS (talk|c|em) 12:47, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Not paid for page creations re: Soar (company). Have re-edited to use third-party sources only. Howzat out (talk) 19:38, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Chaos Theorem moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Chaos Theorem, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. GSS (talk|c|em) 11:43, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

August 2019

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts, and for undisclosed paid editing. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

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 ~~~~}}.  Yunshui ^雲_水 11:38, 27 August 2019 (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).

Howzat out (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:

The reason for creating a new account was because the Howzat_out account is being retired. The secondary account was not an abuse of Wikipedia policy because the intention was to use a new username. Wikipedia states "An account cannot be deleted." on the FAQ page, so I felt the only option was to create a new account. Feel free to keep Howzat out on block, however Osteopathx should be unblocked. Howzat out (talk) 12:16, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Clear violation of WP:SOCK here. Nor have you addressed your undisclosed paid editing. Yamla (talk) 13:16, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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Howzat out (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:

Thank you Yamla for the prompt reply and insight into Wikipedia's internal guidelines. I'm a bit confused by some of the reasoning because the WP:UPE was clearly added to the article. I see that I only didn't address it on this talk page, but instead on the article itself. I agree that the wording you pointed out was poor word choice and I should have made it much clearer, rather than referring to myself in the third person. Rather than going back and forth through the unblock template, what is the recommend means of resolving this dispute and allowing one of the accounts to exist? Howzat out (talk) 13:49, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Again, you have not addressed your undisclosed paid editing. What type of information do Wikipedia's readers expect? Why does undisclosed paid editing harm Wikipedia and is seen as dishonest? Why is the decision to include a topic not yours to make? MER-C 17:58, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

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Request reason:

The paid editing was disclosed on the talk page of the article! The remainder of the questions look to be rhetorical. Based on reasons outlined above can I have this account unbanned? If there is still question over intent, can this ban have a restoration date and/or be considered as "time served"? Howzat out (talk) 19:58, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Decline reason:

That's not how this works. You won't be unblocked at least until you satisfactorily answer the questions posed by MER-C. 331dot (talk) 00:12, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Draft:Chaos Theorem concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Chaos Theorem, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:33, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Chaos Theorem

Hello, Howzat out. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Chaos Theorem".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Bkissin (talk) 21:35, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Soar (company)

Hello, Howzat out. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Soar".

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 by following the instructions at this link. 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!} 21:58, 5 March 2020 (UTC)