Leilaoes

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Apparent Conflict of Interest

• 4 October 2019 user:SnøhettaAS was blocked for two reasons (1) advertising or promotion in regard to the article Snøhetta_(company), and (2) username violation, a username which indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site. (Per User_talk:SnøhettaAS.)
• 7 October 2019 user:SnøhettaAS requested an unblock and username change to "leilaosterbo". (Per User_talk:SnøhettaAS.) While a name change would be possible and acceptable, the unblock request was provisionally declined pending explicit acknowledgement of other relevant policy issues and the Terms of Service:
  • you must confirm that this account is used by one individual only
  • you must agree to avoid creating or directly editing articles related to your organization (requested edits will still be permitted)
  • you must agree to abide by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use and disclose any paid relationship in accordance with the paid contributor policy
  • you must indicate what areas of Wikipedia you intend to edit in the future
• 8 October 2019 this account, user:Leilaoes was created and preformed similar edits to article Snøhetta_(company). (Those edits have been reverted.) Given the edits and the obvious username match, I see no need to open a Sockpuppet Investigation. The two accounts are obviously operated by the same user. I'll ping Administrator Yunshui or Administrator 331dot to block this account.

Leilaoes, I'll explain a few points. Blocks are against the person, not just the account. You created a new account without resolving the block-issues as discussed under your unblock request. That is Block evasion and Sockpuppetry. Your edits with this new account also violated both the paid contributor policy and Terms of Use for paid contributors.

If you want to edit here, you first need to answer the issues raised in response to your unblock request. If you adequately address those issues then we can welcome you back as an editor. That means you either edit topics unrelated to your company, or you submit edits related to your company in compliance with our paid contributor policies. The paid contributor policies can be inconvenient, but that is the only way we will allow anyone connected to Snøhetta to contribute to that article. Wikipedia is not like Facebook, companies do not own or control the articles about them. The community are caretakers of the articles, and we consider it an unacceptable conflict of interest when companies try to write or re-write articles about themselves.

As a side note, I see that your company currently has a business engagement with the Wikimedia Foundation. I would like to offer you some info and advice. I hope you pass this info along to others at Snøhetta. The editing community and the Foundation have a complicated and rather unique relationship. The community existed first, and later the Foundation was created to support the community. The community elects, and can replace, the Board of Directors of the Wikimedia Foundation. The community has a lot of influence over what the Foundation does or does not do.

The community is currently running a proposal to reject Snøhetta's rebranding plan. That proposal is currently running 91% opposed to the plan. There is essentially no chance of following through with the plan to hijack the Wikipedia brand for the Foundation itself. I know... the Foundation staff on the project are currently on board with this plan. Unfortunately Foundation staff have a long history of running off on various projects, and those projects dying when the community rejects it. If Snøhetta wants to salvage this business deal, I strongly suggest you start working on a new strategy to rebrand the Foundation as pretty much anything other than "Wikipedia". Believe me, that plan just isn't going to happen. See the link I gave, the community is gearing up to terminate that rebranding strategy. The Board of Trustees is not going to try to proceed with a plan if the community is overwhelmingly hostile to that plan. Alsee (talk) 11:36, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

January 2020

User:Alsee is correct in their explanation above; the creation of a new account to evade the block on your previous account is an abuse of multiple accounts. Please make any unblock appeals from your original account at User:SnøhettaAS, bearing in mind that you will now also have to explain your abuse of multiple accounts as well as addressing the other issues that led to the initial block. Yunshui ^雲_水 13:15, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Volunteer policy compliance assistance

Hi Leila, please see User talk:SnøhettaAS#Proposed appeal. EllenCT (talk) 18:34, 29 February 2020 (UTC)